Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast season was inaugurated when 16 tried and true Republicans trooped into the family dining-room behind President Coolidge at eight o'clock to eat cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, maple syrup, sausage, toast, and take their choice of milk, tea or coffee. The President talked with vim about business and weather conditions, G.O.P. prospects and the World's Series. Most of the guests were members of the Republican National Committee and Chairman William Morgan Butler thereof sat on the right hand of the President. But "Coolidge for 1928" talk was conspicuously suppressed...
...harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week. It was only about eleven o'clock in the morning and the bargees, who had gone to bed at ten the night before, were drowsing until it became time to eat their supper. One of them mumbled a curse and sat up angry and bewildered. Soon his companion did likewise; the two stared at each other with alarm and annoyance, for the air was full of strange noises. Whistles, sirens, funnels, horns, bells, squealers, filled the morning with a troublesome cacophony. Suddenly one bargee shook his fist...
...will in "it. This will decreed that Jimmie should marry a woman of his guardian's choice. Jimmie could not see it and had a way of running off with an actress for Atlantic City weekends. Thereby he nearly lost a fabulous fortune. There are audiences who will eat it up and some who will not touch it. It has wild oats...
...under Scott pierced the vast whiteness of the Antarctic, brought back to England scientific minutiae on whales. Gained after a two-year expedition in perilous seas, such data may help preserve the monsters of the ocean from extinction at the hands of oil hunters. Whales are gay livers. They eat heartily of their favorite delicacy, an Antarctic crab known as prickly peter. They are far from monogamous...
...student waiters are employed. In addition to these halls the dining room in the Faculty Club provides meals for 50 and the students' night restaurant, open from 6 o'clock till after midnight, takes care of 200. There is also a cafeteria where 100 members of the office force eat daily. Below the Faculty Club is a special dining hall where a student may invite women guests by making reservations with Mrs. Herd on the first floor of Morgan Hall. This dining hall has been temporarily closed for repairs; but will be re-opened shortly...