Word: cook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calls her "great luck." The director of the Opera Comique was present and she was asked to sing for him. So impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs to buy her morning coffee...
...possibilities, discover the account of a barque that is to make its farewell voyage from Vancouver to the Fiji Islands. There are numerous difficulties of practicality and convention to be overcome, but the author and her friend are signed as midshipmaids, and depart, aboard a ship with a cannibal cook and a crew of old-time sailors. The journey takes about two months; the body of the book is made up of the ship's log, which was kept by Miss Cooper...
...Clarence Cook Little '10, former president of the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, prominent educator who has been director of the American Birth Control League since 1925, will speak tonight at the Liberal Club at 7 o'clock on the subject of "Birth Control". Students and officers of the University who wish to attend this meeting are requested to send their names and addresses to the secretary of the Liberal Club at 66 Winthrop Street in advance...
...biology and physiology are embraced in the many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the theoretic investigation of the allied sciences, lest concentrators in the Division become mere followers of cook book directions over a Bunsen burner...
...Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks. The President ordered the 690 bad soldiers held there to be quartered in other Army penal institutions, making room for 1,800 civilian prisoners from crammed Atlanta and Leavenworth. Already over 1,000 have been transferred to Ft. Leavenworth. Not transferred was famed Dr. Frederick Cook, North pole "explorer," "blue sky" stock salesman. A well-behaved inmate, he took no part in the riot last summer...