Word: brunch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start drinking before breakfast. I used to put away more than Dean Martin spills." ··· It was not radical chic but radical chuck in San Francisco when partisans of the newborn United Prisoners Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize their cause with a brunch of prison food. The "isolation loaf," made from a Department of Corrections recipe for prisoners in solitary, was pronounced revolting by the "name" guests. "A cross between cat food and dog food," said Writer Jessica Mitford. But some of the freeloaders seemed to think it wasn't bad. One fellow...
...could almost imagine the appropriate fade-ins and outs when my mother spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...
Yesterday morning, a leisurely registration preceded cocktails and brunch. Charles W. Eliot '20, grandson of Harvard's President Eliot, talked in the afternoon about the physical lay-out of the University. John H. Finley '25 spoke on academic developments at Harvard. Last night the alumni assembled at the Business School's Kresge Hall for cocktails and dinner...