Word: chef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could hide. They were not quieted until a Basque priest had said Mass, a Basque chef stewed up steaming caldrons of their national dish, bacalao Bilbaino (creamed codfish...
When food is at last sneaked them by a waiter (Alexander Asro) who has been promised a part in their show, Mr. Loeb, after the most voracious eating scene since Mclntyre & Heath in The Ham Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn...
...Hornell. N. Y., Negro Chef Louis Sight asked Patrolman C. Kenneth Conley to let him look at his blackjack. Chef Sight snapped it inquisitively, knocked himself...
...beside him last week His Majesty drove a car briefly in Windsor, was promptly described as "the first King in British history to drive his Queen in an automobile." George V never drove Queen Mary: Edward VIII drove Mrs. Simpson. She remained last week in France with friends whose chef she last year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor and her children have full...
...This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today all standard Soviet handbooks state that "nine" Dnepr hydroelectric turbines are, not only built but "in operation." In the power house last week Ambassador Davies saw six turbines, one Soviet-manufactured, the others by U. S. General...