Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress of "Emperor" A. J. Cook's "army" of 400 unemployed miners, marching from Newport, Wales, to London (TIME...
Came the army to Reading, where it encamped in the Grain Exchange building and enjoyed a meal of beef stew, tea and bread. Gorged, they listened to the words their leader, A. J. Cook, was addressing them: "You are marching against Capitalism and Baldwinism, and you 260 [they started 400 strong] men are the advance guard of a revolutionary army. This historic miners' march to London is a tragedy to set the real situation of the country before the British public. It is the duty of the working classes to remove those who are responsible for such a calamity...
Here in the ancient metropolis of England, A. J. Cook took over the command of his army after its 11-day march from Wales, he having marched only part of two days with them. Anxious London "bobbies" gave them unnecessary protection as they swung through the main streets to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar square, where a Labor Magna Charta was read. There followed a meeting with Labor...
...cold rooms, life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still...
...Chapman '31, and H. C. Friend '31, will support the affirmative of this question, while R. B. Cook '31, and G. R. Holden '31, will maintain the negative, and the audience will act as judge...