Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore two young Chinese, dressed in department store clothes, entered a restaurant, ordered a meal of rice and soup. The cook, one Charley Lee, withdrew to prepare it. To the proprietor, who sat beaming behind his counter, one of the men beckoned with a rolled newspaper; he approached. When he had come to within a yard of the table, the fellow dropped his paper; the other fired. Lee rushed from the kitchen; the murderers were gone, his employer was dead. A bubble of blood from his lips incarnadined the newspaper...
...Manhattan in the kitchen of a restaurant, one Ho Kee, a cook, was mixing curry. A slight noise made him glance behind him; a face like a soiled lemon wafer leered at him from the shadow of a barrel; a roaring flash filled the kitchen. The shot that killed him scorched his apron; he was buried with a .38 calibre revolver in his right hand that he might be equipped to revenge his murder in the next world...
There was a fluttering of feet. A bevy of waiters issued fanlike from the pantry, pattered each to his client. "Sir," said each, "can no cook steak, no cook everything, fire died, very too much water...
Specimen Dialect and Moralizing. Wing Foo, cook: "Boss Big Bloy him no catch um happness, nobody catch um happness. Boss Big Bloy him catch um Missee Nola, evlybody catch um happness?that mo bette...
...Leavenworth (Kan.) Penitentiary, expert now at needlework sits Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, self-proclaimed but discredited "discoverer" of the North Pole (1908). Last week Dr. Cook was reported "in such a bad mental and physical state" that he might never finish his term (begun early this year) of from 1 to 14 years for oil-stock fraud...