Word: cooke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chicago men struck at the Institute by attacking Dr. Schmidt. While Chicago quacks continued unharassed, the Chicago Medical Society expelled Dr. Schmidt from membership. At once, his associate Dr. Yarros resigned; also his colleague, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Chicago's onetime strident but able health commissioner, now Cook County's coroner...
Seeing her husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris...
After a time the Marshal waked, and he was busily working on his memoirs when his wife returned, followed at a respectful distance by cook and market basket. In the basket was an old cock, just right for an old man's chicken soup, a bottle of wine as the Bible says "for thy stomach's sake," and some cheap but wholesome vegetables, for heroes are seldom rich...
...Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper...
...department since 1907, chairman of the committee of revision of the National Formulary, vice-chairman of the U. S. Pharmacopœia.† Eight other men have received the Remington Medal, including Dean Henry Hurd Rusby of Columbia University (see p. 42), but not Dr. (Phar. D.) E. Fullerton Cook, chairman...