Word: cook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary, Joseph W. Worthes, a Boston attorney held the scholarship from 1910 to 1913 and the three other members Dr. N. L. Crone of Boston, Professor Cook of Middleburg, and Professor Vandergraf of M.I.T. were at Oxford during the twenties...
...When has a chef or a cook ever ap peared on a British Honours list? Yet the man who cooks your food ... is as important as ... a dozen great painters, literateurs, or musicians...
...troop of headliners associated with The Boys from Syracuse is no mere Who's Whooey. Every one knows his job. Every cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This...
...paralytic stroke; on North Brother Island in the East River. N. Y. In 1902 German Bacteriologist Robert Koch proved that typhoid could be spread by an apparently healthy person who was a walking repository of germs. In 1907 it was discovered that one Mary Mallon had been employed as cook in a number of homes where typhoid had broken out. She was examined against her will, found to be harboring typhoid bacilli, imprisoned on North Brother Island when she refused to have a gall-bladder operation which might have cured her. Freed a few years later, she broke a promise...
Last spring the fight for and against more big dirigibles reached a showdown. Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, coolly declared that airships had no demonstrable military value, flying qualities aside. Congressman Harter pleaded for re-employment at Goodyear-Zeppelin factory in Akron, Mr. Dingell for Detroit's metal-clads, Mr. Sutphin for adequate training at Lakehurst. Congress casually passed the buck to Mr. Roosevelt: if he wished, he could spend up to $3,000,000 for a ship about half the size...