Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...
...Sleet: "That girl couldn't cook. She tried to fry a steak one day and used so much grease it was awful. And eat-why she would eat a cube of butter at one meal and drink a quart of milk...
Nellie: "I can cook but my mother-in-law wouldn...
...Homer Galpin, chairman of the Republican county central committee, said that he would be in charge of the Republican campaign in Cook County and then went north for a vacation in Wisconsin...
...most popular person at the picnic was Richard Evans, 91. A nimble fellow in button-shoes, he shook hands with everyone. It was found that he was the oldest foreign born inhabitant of Cook County; he had been brought there by his parents when he was ten months old. He had a trombone with him which he played at frequent intervals. He seemed eager to tell everyone about the old days when he was a young man and when Chicago was a young city. Said Richard Evans: "I knew Chicago before it had a railroad, a paved street, a trolley...