Word: cook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your lucid narrative report [TIME, Feb. 4] of the events leading up to the resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little you appear to make one statement that can hardly be justified, in view of your accustomed nose for facts...
...smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...
...with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
...account of this flight, making it as exciting and important as he modestly and scientifically could. But after all the polar flights that there have been and in view of the highly technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...
...board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good as given, written...