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...inside, had his attention called to the wallpaper given by Marquis de La Fayette, was seated at the head of Andrew Jackson's dining table for just the kind of breakfast that "Old Hickory'' relished. First came savory country sausages and fried apples with cinnamon, followed by a superb dish of turkey hash with beaten biscuits, hominy and eggs scrambled with browned cornmeal. The President was then taken outside for a view of the Jackson tomb. He also cocked an appreciative eye at the fine old stone springhouse, pouring its sparkling waters across the world...
...open and Secretary Mills and Professor Moley walked out. For ten minutes the 31st and 32nd Presidents were left alone in private conversation. Then while the White House secretariat was issuing a curt communique reporting "progress," Governor Roosevelt drove to the Mayflower Hotel. There he ordered and consumed tea & cinnamon toast while dressing to dine with the Washington correspondents at the National Press Club...
...kilometre bicycle race was Attilio Pavesi of Italy. On his handlebars he had a bowl of soup, a bucket of water. In a bib that hung from his shoulders were a dozen bananas, cinnamon buns, jam, cheese sandwiches, spaghetti. Around his neck were two spare tires...
...hurry the rain will spoil them." Haste was suggested, but was as soon rejected by this watcher of his own iniquity. He sat for a time shrouded in Cathedral silence. He had acquired the fatalism and the inactivity of the twelve-year-old. He had spilled three pounds of Cinnamon balls, salvation lay only in the laps of the far away gods upon Olympus...
...explanation had been made and the matter was concluded. So too was the perplexing question of the Cinnamon balls. The young gentleman spied his dog in the distance and whistled him up. For a man of his Napoleonic stature, creatures, be they dumb or ever so valuable, were merely pawns to his bidding. The dog saw the Cinnamon balls and history repeated itself; "the dog it was that died...