Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful women about a big stage and at the same time keep the decoration from becoming Levantine. But Vincent Youmans has written far more distinguished music (in Show Girl, Rainbow, Great Day) than he has provided for Smiles and the book never gives Tom Powers (onetime partner of Joe Cook) a chance to be half as amusing...
...voyage to Greenland made last year by Kent and two companions: the late Arthur Samuel Allen Jr., 22† and Lucian ("Cupid") Carey, 22. Their boat, the cutter Direction, 13 tons, 33 ft. over all, belonged to Allen's father. Allen was skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab, their destination, they...
Musical?FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GIRL CRAZY (music by the brothers Gershwin), PRINCESS CHARMING (elaborate) THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Free Allen, Clifton Webb...
...little university town of Princeton. N. J. bids fair to become notorious. Last fortnight Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled close by there. Last week Princeton's most popular citizen and onetime mayor, Dr. Charles Browne, published part of his wisdom in the form of a cook book...
...Club Cook Book scorns frippery and froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture...