Word: chefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who are unconvinced, let me suggest a different method of procedure than violent and exaggerated words or actions: when a meal has seemed to you better, or, if you prefer, not as bad as usual, let the chef know your appreciation, call him in the dining room and give him a "Harvard cheer". This method may create on incentive which your groans and complaints fall to arouse. Alex Chalufour...
Next to cooks, ambassadors come and go oftener than any other kind of help. Last week, Secretary of State Hughes engaged two new ones, and President Coolidge announced their appointments. One of them, Edgar Addision Bancroft, was appointed to succeed Cyrus E. Woods as chef at Tokyo. The other, James Rockwell Sheffield, is to be maitre d'hotel succeeding Charles B. Warren at Mexico City...
However in the second half of the inning the waiters nicked the efficiency expert Baldwin for 26 hits by their own count, the game ending at 23-2 because the bystanders liked the score, and because Chef Otto, as referee, called off the game in order to set his victorious assistants to washing glasses. Coach Stevens, as umpire, had been fixed by the waiters beforehand by means of liberal and efficient service...
...from relief work abroad, Greece, oldest and youngest republic in the world, offered to loan the U. S. "for any length of time the Government may desire it," the most beautiful statue bequeathed to her by antiquity. The statue is Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus, the chef d'oeuvre of Praxiteles, famed Greek sculptor of the 4th Century...
...they will not. Not improbably there will remain underneath a small fire which will keep the pot bubbling, and which blown to fierce flames by the next winter monsoon, will have the whole congenial mess at a pleasant boiling-point ready for the appropriate seasoning of a very experienced chef...