Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosmo Hamilton author and boiler of literary pots has recently tried an original experiment. Realizing that the usual novel, or at least his usual novel could be compressed into a radio speech he has written and delivered such a chef d'oeuvre to the silent spaces. In fifteen minutes he has been able to real all of his novel, "Sons of Mothers", to the literary lethargists of the modern world, he radio public. Thus he has proven to his own satisfaction that such an abbreviated novel can be written...
Editor Duncan Aikman and the jounalists and novelists who compiled The Taming follow Mr. White's lead in being ingenuously shocking and satirically humorous. Idwal Jones' chapter on the guerilla artists of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast is one of the best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill...
...this fitting tribute to an obscure genius with approval, recalled that it was only a couple of years ago that a monument was erected in Strasbourg by public subscription to M. Close, inventor of the technique by which pâté de foie gras, often called the chef d'oeuvre of the French cuisine, is produced...
...never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped down Anderson, 6-1, 1-6, 8-6, 6-4. Next day he faced Tilden...
...semi-final match against Howard Kinsey (No. 4 nationally), the crowd soon saw that he was at it again. For the first two sets he played idly but effectively, led at 6-4, 7-5, then dawdled, flapped his serve like a chef turning a meatball, made clownish errors so that Kinsey won the third and fourth sets, 6-2, 6-3. In the fifth set, with Kinsey leading at 5-2 and the gallery becoming demoniac, he decided that his moment had come...