Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known around Winnetka as "Mrs. Ickes' husband." In 1928 she re- signed as a trustee of the University of Illinois, was elected as a Republican to the State Legislature. There she is now serving her third term as one of three representatives from an enormous district which encircles Cook County from Glencoe on the north to Blue Island on the south. As a Chicago lawyer Harold Ickes was early attracted to reform politics. He backed Charles E. Merriam for Mayor-and lost. He backed Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency in 1912. He backed Charles Evans Hughes...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
Last October Chicago discovered that in the three previous months more of its automobiles had been stolen than new cars registered. For the full year there were 34,246 auto thefts in Cook County (Chicago and environs)-nearly 100 a day. Last week as the Illinois Legislature talked of repealing a stringent new anti-theft law (reason: it might cost money to enforce it) Chicago...
...time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a job as lady's maid in a patrician menage where the linen closets are large enough for téte-à-tétes with the chipper young son of the family. Lester Kane (Donald Cook). The romance between Lester and Jennie develops gaily enough until he goes to Chicago to manage a branch office in his father's business. Jennie goes with him, waits a long time before getting up courage to tell him about her daughter. This has no final effect on their relationship...
...when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence: A policeman arresting Lester when, for a joke, he is pretending to be trying to scrape acquaintance with Jennie...