Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Tinker is the best known living authority on Boswell and Johnson. He is the author of several books, notably "Young Boswell," and has translated "Beowulf." In addition he has edited several volumes of English prose and verse in conjunction with Professor A. S. Cook...
...Vanities. After running one show all summer, Earl Carroll despatched it to the provinces and followed with an entirely new edition. He kept Julius Tannen, bits of scenery and probably a chorus girl here and there. He added Frank Tinney and Joe Cook, many songs and much nonsense. It was with some horror that the opening night attendants heard Mr. Tinney jest gleefully about his recent marital disturbance. Otherwise he was funny. Mr. Cook was exceedingly amusing in his own peculiar way, and on the whole people had a good time...
...corners, the winking brass bell knobs on front doors, the window-boxes and plush curtains, all speak of a civic pride that clings anxiously to dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed...
...often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French...
...represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...