Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While Rev. Joseph Cook was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary he acquired the sobriquet of "Bucephalus" from the following circumstance: He was noted for using very flowery language. Taking his turn one Sunday in preaching before the students, as was their wont, he used the phrase, "Like the half-starved and famished bucephalus would ruminate among the verdant clover, so will our famished souls enjoy the ethereal mansions...
...Joseph Cook, in "Grip...
...next text book to be used in Prof. Cook's section of Freshman German is "Parabeln von Friedrich Kurmmacher." Messrs. Lutz and Sheldon's sections will read "Novellenschatz," volume...
...WILLIAM COOK...
When he was gone the janitor drew out the diary and took a long, lingering look at it. Then he shook his head. He feared Margaret would not understand without a good deal of explanation. Margaret was the cook at 1884 Beacon Street. She had been engaged to the janitor just three days. Taking from his pocket a photograph of this lady, finished in colors in the most approved style of the art, he, by a dexterous use of De Smythe's penknife, removed the mirror and replaced it by the picture; and then, intending to call at 1884 Beacon...