Word: bake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
When cities bake and even country breezes fail, she picks up an extra load and carries...
...Never since the days of "Big Jim" Colosimo (the man with the diamond complex) has the underworld had so potent an organizer. "Scarface Al," except for the old razor gash on one side of his face, might easily be mistaken for a fat, prosperous baker. King Caponi does not bake. With his brothers, Ralph and James, he keeps the beer route flowing and the political machinery of Cicero running. At the last election 20 workers of the anti-Caponi party were kidnaped, slugged, hidden away. Many voters were beaten up as they entered or left polling places. Street fights were...
...corporation, it was evident that that famed 41-year-old baker was carrying out his long-rumored plan of merging the great bakeries of the country and controlling their factory brands of the national life-staff from sown seed to delivered loaf. U. S. housewives still bake 50% of the bread, cake and pastry that is eaten. Baker Ward would attend to much of the rest...
...dismantled its display, into the "palace" sped men with hammers, saws, paints, brushes, tweezers, nippers, screwdrivers, wire and tapes, to prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless" or "radio" knife for surgeons; photograph-transmitting radios-in all, devices numbering...