Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null since Lena was one; said, yes, they would go abroad a while; yes, then settle in Cambridge, Mass., while he studied medicine; yes, he was giving her a million dollars...
...most and tumbled with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...
...telegram. My reading of them was interrupted by the arrival of more flowers, which I sniffed appreciatively. Soon a delegation of our office managers trooped in, bringing me a pigskin suitcase. I thanked them and tried to resume my morning's work, when in came Otto, company chef, in spotless white. He wished me fortune. Other employes streamed in during the morning. Finally, just before I went home to celebrate with my wife, six children and seven grandchildren, who awaited me on Park Avenue, there came a message from my father, William H. Fiske, who has lived- most appropriately...
...civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible of the late...
...gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after the Washington social...