Word: cook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...
Some examples of World Video's doings: Ilka Chase narrating a "Cook's Tour" of Paris' haute cuisine; the editors of Field &Stream collaborating on a Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
...Below stairs" this setup is neatly imitated by Bullivant the butler and Mrs. Selden the cook, who spend the bulk of the day tyrannizing over two minor lackeys named George and Miriam with just the same genteel, long-winded authorita-tiveness that Horace exercises upstairs...
...minutes to two hours late, if he shows up at all. He lives in a rather ornate house rented from Gary Grant, to which very few male visitors are admitted, and on which he seems to have made no marks of his own occupancy. He has no chauffeur, no cook, no valet-in fact, no servants in the ordinary sense but a quartet of aides-de-camp. They include Charlie Guest, his old golf pro, and another man named Barry, who might be described as lieutenants in charge of odds & ends, including admissions and evictions; Johnny Meyer, the man with...
Craggy, weather-beaten Claude L. (for Lafayette) Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph. Now past 70, he had crossed the country in a covered wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...