Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do you want, you scum of the earth? Money? Tell the cook to bring a panful. But you shall dive for it today! A cold plunge...
Their inception was obscure, ak most accidental. In 1841 Thomas Cook, a British lecturer and writen on temperance, decided to lead a large party from Leicester to a temperance society convention at Loughborough not far away. Coaching would be difficult and confusing. Travel on the new Midland Railway was considered audacious. Yet daring, enterprising Thomas Cook chartered a train, the first "public" excursion train in history, persuaded 570 temperance members to trust to his guidance, and appeared triumphantly at Loughborough. The fare was one shilling (24 cents) the round trip...
...success of this first excursion led to others. Thomas Cook opened all England to the provincials. Scotland had no direct railway connections those early days. So he organized an excursion by train and boat. For $5 each, 350 people traveled 800 miles. At Glasgow guns were fired in their honor, bands played...
Before Thomas Cook instituted an excursion, he tried to cover the territory personally. He was a great diarist, noting down the beauties and historicities of locales. In 1872 he pioneered the first annual tour around the world. Now the organization which he left in charge of his only son, John Mason Cook (died 1899)* arranges such tours with the casualness of a banker cashing a check. A host of other travel agencies have since entered the business, among them: Raymond Whitcomb Co., American Express Co., Frank Tourist Co., F. C. Clark. So too have various steamship lines. Yet none...
...Thomas Cook was born 1808, died...