Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They crowded to the rails, rubbernecking eagerly as the towers of the City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that in Tallinn once lived that popular Old Bolshevik gaffer Mikhail Kalinin who today is frontman for secretive Joseph Stalin in the role of Soviet President. "Look there, comrades!" cried the political commissar, "Over there you can see where Mikhail Ivanovich once worked as a mechanic...
...hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...PAIR OF HANDS-Monica Dickens-Harper ($2.50). An engaging great granddaughter of Charles Dickens reports breezily on her adventures as a cook (a job she took on for adventure's sake). Her cook's-eye conclusion:"A kick in the Pants for allemployers." Novelist Compton Mackenzie contributes an appreciative foreword...
George Willetts scored the goal for the Crimson as Cal Calhoun and Cook starred. Only poor shooting prevented the Yardlings from scoring more goals...
...that counts, in either house of Congress, comes when a bill is being amended. Then legislators are working spontaneously with their wits and tongues to shape and perfect legislation. Full-dress debate, such as last week's in the Senate, is almost as empty of reality as the cook books and tracts that filibusterers read into the Congressional Record. Even as a powerhouse of arguments, this Congressional debate was of little or no importance. The Washington public stayed away from a mere set of written speeches; waited for the sparring to come when such phrase-fisted boxers as Missouri...