Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snyder, 45, told his wife, Minnie, that he had thought up a plan that was going to make him $20,000,000. Because they were on relief, Mrs. Snyder promptly asked acting County Judge Albert E. Isley to commit him to an institution. In court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each $10 invested, asked...
...Camps* (maintained for underprivileged children by contributions from TIME Inc. and readers of its publications), he takes some 250 youngsters each year for a month's free vacation. In groups of six or seven, each group accompanied by two counselors, the children put up tents in the woods, cook their own meals, learn to take care of themselves in Nature's habitat...
Pressing these backs for their posts are Harry Tine, an Andover back who ran 60 yards through the entire Yale Freshman team last year for a touchdown; Eddie Buckley, a hard-hitting tailback; Tom Cook a good blocker; and stock Lothrop Withington...
Seventh Crew--Stroke, Woods; 7, Overton; 6, Rile; 5, Herter, C.; 4, Brooks, J.; 3, Kirkland; 2, Harlow; bow, Casey; spares, Cook, Hollmeyer, Tyson, and Jones...
Aside from a few bright glimpses of the children and constant troubles with the help, these reflections make up most of The Door of Life. Although the. squire bears a healthy son without too much trouble, there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another turns out to be immoral, the butler hates women, his substitute is a drunk and a maid is discharged for theft-that readers are likely to forget that Author Bagnold is picturing the fortitude of English mothers, not the corruption of English domestics...