Word: oatmeal
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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...
First, there were 30 pages of the manuscript of the Life. These had not been closed in the ebony trunk, but had, since the death of Boswell, reposed in a Scottish garret where the air was as damp as oatmeal. When Lord Talbot stooped to gather this sheaf of merry memories, the bundle had crumbled in his hand into a little flutter of yellowish flakes. Only 30 pages could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica...
...sitting room of his suite at the Hotel Willard where breakfast waited him at 9:00. He was just seated and beginning when word was brought to him that several delegations, including the press, wished to see him. He had them brought in and offered to share his oatmeal, ham, eggs, hot rolls and coffee with them, but they declined. He ate leisurely for about an hour, talking to his visitors. Mrs. Dawes came to warn him to be ready to start. "I'll be ready in time," he promised...
...waiters nudged one another. Amid the jingling of knives, forks, glasses, the clatter of tableware that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended...
DOCTOR JOHNSON (A Play)?A. Edward Newton?Atlantic Monthly Press ($3.50). Mr. Newton, well known Philadelphian, book collector and essayist, here presents, with the assistance of numerous immortal shades, four scenes from the life of that burly Doctor, hater of oatmeal, Scotchmen, professional politicians and cant, who is one of the few among the dead celebrities of English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian...