Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner of Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week it became apparent that the second biggest city in the land stood to lose $414,129 as the result...
...process by which Jimmy Savo, son of a Bronx cobbler, worked his way into the world's most impressive theatrical organization was long and disjointed. Twenty years ago he was a burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...
Their soutanes gaily flapping and their smooth-shaven faces gleaming, virtually all the Catholic bishops and archbishops of the British Isles, to say nothing of hordes of British priests, journeyed last week to Vatican City. Not in years of Cook's Tours had the Romans seen so many Inglesi at one time-in all, 7,000 pilgrims, at whose head was no less a personage than Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 70, the son of a Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What...
...present Princeton lineup is a fixture and there is about as much chance of another man crashing his way into the company of Dave Roberts, Hank Roberts, Stew Ranch, Pete Cook, Dev Warner, Captain Chevy Echeverria, Al Edwards, Killer Cooks, and Cox Peanut MacRae as the Princeton Varsity has of winning at Poughkeepsie (where it is not entered...
...when he was pulling on his quite modest underpants, His Highness said, "I noticed yesterday that it took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy in two small suites-and having...