Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctors have asked for special recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink "preserved milk," specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain's royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink milk to make a pink milk pudding. All six of Their Majesties were said at Sandringham to have pronounced it "extraordinarily palatable...
Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...
...grandfather was a black chief. His father was a black chef. At their deaths he was raised by his chocolate-brown mother who once slaved in Kentucky's blue grass. She taught small Taylor to knock wood. But one thing she did not teach...
...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
...cuts and the production in general. Hence with enthusiasm last week they hailed the coming of the German Grand Opera Company* which promised two complete cycles of the Nibelungen Ring, uncut, and a Tristan with Johanna Gadski. Manager George Blumenthal has brought singers from Germany, also a German chef who prepares German food for intermissions...