Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica of Max Baer. "Alice Eden" is Rowena Cook, 20, of New York City. Both winners received long-term contracts...
Last week grey-haired C. C. Cook, first and only cashier of the Booneville bank, got sore. He announced that the bank would pay no interest after June 30. If they still refused to come for their money, he threatened to mail it to them by check...
...biggest turnover in Richman employes is due to retirements. A woman cook in the cafeteria retired recently, after 13 years of service, with $30,000 worth of Richman stock, a savings account of $3,500. About the same time a tailor with a larger block of stock, a house fully paid for, retired after 25 years of service, to make room for someone else. Today the market value of stock held by Richman employes is about...
...years ago Monica Dickens, beauteous, 23-year-old great-granddaughter of class-conscious Charles Dickens, went to work as a cook to get material for a book on belowstairs life. President Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, announced he had bought the book (One Pair of Hands), gaffed: "She has an easy pen and the same interest in the lower half of the people that Dickens was so well known...
This week Dos Passos published a book that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum...