Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage show is, if you like that sort of thing, fairly satisfactory. The Gay Gordons, Clyde Cook; and a fellow named Oliver rather brought up the average. Though the jokes of the last-named wavered always on the edge of plain coarseness. Cook is good, and the Gordons put on a novelty program which is distinctly refreshing...
Married. Clarence Cook Little, 42-year-old director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, onetime (1922-25) president of the University of Maine, onetime (1925-29) president of the University of Michigan, director of the American League for Birth Control; and Beatrice W. Johnson, his pupil at Maine in 1922, his assistant in 1924, a women's adviser at Michigan when Dr. Little was its president; at Fredericton, New Brunswick. (Year ago, Dr. Little divorced his first wife...
Last week the Linders asked the Cook County Court for permission legally to adopt Little Joe. Alarmed. Widow Julian hurried to Big Joe, told him what might happen to Little Joe. Announced Widow Julian...
Last week, however, that prospect was materially altered when Illinois Republicans held their State convention at Springfield. A Prohibition referendum goes on the Illinois ballot this November, due to the 400,000 petition signatures obtained by Chairman Bernard Snow of the Cook County Republican Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year...
...before it was announced, London and New York newspaper offices knew last week that the starboard propeller and part of the shaft of the British liner Tahiti had fallen off, some 500 mi. from the Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead...