Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perilous situation yesterday with only 20 pounds of sugar on hand and with a demand for 250 to 300 pounds a week. "All we can say to a customer who wants a cup of coffee is "how many?" and he'll know what we mean," explained Cliff. chef of the restaurant...
...greatest power of Sinclair's chef-d'oeuvre lies in its sweetness. This quality makes history far more honest and more clear than if anger and hatred gave their edges to it. Sinclair understands how intimately involved individuals are in the making of history, yet how helplessly conditioned they are by their lives. He understands "occupational psychosis": that disease of specialized thinking by which human beings, in this age, are most inevitably set at odds. That is what makes his characters genuinely tragic symbols. It makes for a sort of sublimity when he can unexcitedly use the word...
They will be considerably more comfortable than they would be at home. At both these concentration camps are warm barracks, playing fields, good food. Chef at Fort Missoula is Orlando Figini, who managed the restaurant in the Italian Village at the New York World's Fair...
...undoubted facts that the Mayor is spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx...
...average New York Times book-reporter.) "Reading I've Liker" is an unpretentious collection which represents various aspects of that taste. The book does include, for example, the whole of James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" (which any Thurber-connoisseur will tell you is the master's chef-d'ocuvre), stories by Maugham, Beerbohm, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, excerpts from Eve Curie and Fowler's "Modern English Usage," and Judge Woolsey's decision lifting the ban on "Ulysses...