Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action, the involutions and convolutions of human destiny, of life and - death, that hung upon the event when he set out to Swampscott last June (TIME, June 29). Now he knows at least in part. For when he went, one of his train was Miss Margaret Carr, a cook who had flipped him many a fine wheat-cake and other delicacies. She returned to Washington two weeks ago still in the President's train. But last week it became known that she was leaving, going back to Swampscott, going back to marry Jerry Shea, who is chauffeur...
...presidency of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is not listed by actuaries as an especially dangerous occupation. Yet Mrs. C. B. Cook of Vinton, Ia., found it so. She became an active Prohibition crusader, aiding and abetting enforcement agents in every way. Then the grim train of events began. One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home...
Last week Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery rushed crowds of sightseers to a new gawking place. For the first time in 400 years the kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, whence came the viands of Cardinal Wolsey and florid Henry VIII, were thrown open to the public. Where the Master Cook, velvet-gowned, bechained with gold, had once held powers of all but life and death over his scullions, thronged many a one who thought himself as good as many another, and probably considerably better...
...Speak for yourself, Thomas!" jangled Mr. Cook. Amid pandemoneum his measure was defeated...
...fortnight ago Boris was reported the near victim of typhus bacilii interlarded by "a suspicious cook" in his dessert. Last April he returned the fire of assassins who intercepted his car near Sofia. Last December he made a "courting tour of Europe, in search of a bride." TIME chronicled these events (Sept. 14 and April...