Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swaggering unprincipled clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father...
Shostakovich's choral skill exhibited itself when the peasants rolled the cook in the barrel. The peasants shouted their delight but the music had reason and a sure, compelling rhythm. When the father-in-law caught Katerina wrestling, the horns were again cruelly loud and foreboding. As she climbed the stairs and settled herself in bed, Narrator Hale described her as seeing "visions of the mating beasts and birds. . . . Even the wind bending the tree to its will is a lover, alive, insistent...
Pole-vault--Barcewice, Cook, Dubiel, Pettingell, Schumann, Woodberry...
...remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides for 15 minutes or so would be followed by a lull, then a fresh outburst. About 11 o'clock in the morning, when the house had been silent longer than usual, a Negro cook was sent in. He returned to say, "They's all dead." The Federal men, unscratched after firing 1,500 rounds of machine-gun bullets, found Fred Barker sprawled with eleven slugs in one shoulder, three in his head. "Ma" Barker lay with a single bullet in her body...
...Honor was not impressed by Mr. Carlisle's co-operative spirit. "There is nothing here to indicate that Mrs. LaGuardia can cook the family Easter dinner at less cost," he grumbled. Asked if he favored the Washington Plan in theory, the short, swart Mayor parried politically: "I must first see how it will affect Mrs. O'Flaherty, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Pellegrino and Mrs. Jones. The hand that turns the electric switch is the hand that will determine the rates...