Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire Chamber (not excepting Bombacci's friends) broke into uncontrollable laughter at this point; for Bombacci some months before had hidden in the coal cellar of a Bologna restaurant wearing a chef's cap, to escape the clutches of Fascismo. The episode ended here...
Died. Camille Chevillard, 63, composer and orchestra conductor, at Paris. Since 1913 he had been chef d'orchestre of the Grand Opera...
Thus did Daniel Hoan, one-time chef, self-made university graduate, self-made lawyer, self-made politician, open a boom for Debs. Milwaukee is a Socialist city, but Hoan by his own abilities has been in office (as city attorney) even when the Socialist ticket as a whole was defeated. In 1916 he became mayor of Milwaukee and carried the city for the Socialists with the slogan: "Public Ownership of Public Utilities...
...title of mystery to most readers, yet it comes as a natural choice in such a list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here, for it is the chef d'ocuvre of Copernicus. Shakespeare, the invariable choice of critics, is ignored in favor of Marco Polo's "Travels". Wells considers that the latter book was responsible for the discovery...