Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours to prepare that dish," assumed to spend "three and a half hours every morning curling his sardonic beard and adjusting his jewel-studded turban...
...Louis A. Cook '34 of Sandusky, Olde now a student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
Near Stillwater, Okla. four years ago husky Clyde Cook, 45, and his plump wife Jessie, 40, packed their children into an old automobile, drove north. Drought and Depression had whipped them in Oklahoma. All they hoped for now was to raise enough food for their growing family. At Walker, Minn, somebody told them about a dried-up lake bottom they might farm. Clyde Cook tried it. He kept his family of five boys and two girls alive somehow until the New Deal came along. Then he went on relief...
When he knew his long day was almost over Gus cashed in shrewdly on his wood-lot holdings, arranged all his affairs like the solid old Yankee he was. Then he got his daughter Kate to cook him the kind of food he always liked: beans and bannock, with plenty of pepper. As his dying remark he murmured one of the family's favorite jokes...
Pole Vault--Won by Dubiel (H), 13 ft. 2 in. (New record); second, Woodbury (H), 12 ft. 6 in.; third, tie between Barcewicz (H), Cook (H), Piper (H), Waltonen (NU), and Stark...