Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your critic has charged the author with a one-handed imitation of Mr. Hemingway and a two-footed imitation of Mr. Barry, whilst inducing the mood of a motion picture on the side. A very neat effort indeed, as I have said, and nearly as difficult as Mr. Joe Cook's celebrated attempt to imitate four Hawaiians...
Bernard W. ("Barney") Snow, G. O. P. leader of Cook County and a director of the new Federation, declared that, though nonpartisan, the Federation would work politically to abolish the Federal Farm Board and 79 other Governmental agencies competing with private business. The Federation pledged itself to "put an end to the undermining of the principles of American government by the encroachment of Socialism and Communism...
...second-class promenade of the Rajputana a little enclosure was rigged up for the distinguished traveler. There, to the great interest of homing Britons, he began to cook, spin, pray. Occasionally he rose to place a skinny, brown benediction on the head of some surprised English child...
...Latest addition to St. Gandhi's sisterhood in his model colony on the banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook...
...fortnight's Living Church, contained an editorial which asked again for a $250,000 endowment, predicted the speedy demise of the publication unless its friends gave help. Last week's Living Church revealed the progress of the week's drive-$80 had been received. Editor Frederic Cook Morehouse blamed the plight of The Living Church on advertisers' preference for secular magazines of larger circulation, on increased costs of publication since the war, and on financial losses to Morehouse Publishing Co. (Milwaukee) which had previously been able to pay Living Church deficits out of profits from...