Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty years ago, Capt. James Cook, British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There was joy among the natives, for the Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down...
...medicine, announced last fortnight its plans for the founding of an Institute for the Study of Law, to open in the autumn. It will not train practicing lawyers, but will conduct thoroughgoing researches into all problems of the law. The original members of the faculty are Walter Wheeler Cook (Yale), Herman Oliphant (Columbia), Leon Carroll Marshall (University of Chicago), Hessell Edward Yntema (Columbia...
Observers marked as significant that famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, firebrand Secretary of the Miners' Federation, and perhaps one of the chief provokers of the British General Strike (TIME, May 17, 1926), is now so chastened by the failure of his 100% Red projects that last week he assisted President Smith with the ejections...
...nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...
...within the realm of possibility. . . . My father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...