Word: chef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnny Verbeck is not dead. His admirers will be glad to know that in spite of his rumored disaster and long period of oblivion, he has reappeared. His present employment is that of chef in the Dunster House kitchen...
...illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed the priest's crucifix, each received on the forehead a dab of holy water from a long black brush. Finally the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff marched around La Maisonette Russe brushing it liberally with...
...Senators now on vacation, the Premier last week asked his coalition Cabinet to meet him in the historic Clock Room of the French Foreign Office one day at 9:30 a. m. Figuratively M. Laval then locked the door. Except for lunch and dinner, superbly provided by the famed chef of the Quai d'Orsay, for over 14 hours there was nothing but work in the Salle d'Horloge with its massive, slowly ticking clock. At ten minutes before midnight the weary Cabinet rose, having drafted no less than 28 emergency decrees...
...winning recipe for "Vegetable Tomato Soup" (enough to serve eight) crowned by Buckingham Palace's Chef...
...double saving, since the omission greatly reduced her guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...