Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in exchange for art lessons, and from the first 300 applicants picked ten of the likeliest. The art pupils served as models for others to paint, played the piano for others to dance, scrubbed the floors for singing lessons, typed letters for violin lessons. Because of a Polish cook's desire to make a dancer of her daughter, the faculty has been fed. There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week a perspiring carpenter was revolving slowly before a large mirror...
...remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison Square Garden crowd was throwing newspapers, programs, orange peels, cigarets, candy-wrappers on the ice when the swift pendulum that is the pattern of a close hockey game paused for a moment as Bun Cook of the Rangers scored the first goal. Cecil Dillon of the Rangers scored the second, a minute later, before the first period was three-quarters over. That settled the game. Discouraged as well as tired, the Maple Leafs played unsuccessfully defensive hockey for the next two periods. Dillon...
...plus food, shelter, clothing and medical attention. Those with dependents would have a part of their pay deducted and sent home. With working hours to be fixed by the President, the C. C. C. would clear brush, plant saplings, develop fire controls, fix roads, mend washouts, cook their own food and pick their own subordinate leaders under supervision of Army officers. "Uncivilized" workers would be dropped for infractions of law & order. A worker would be free to seek his discharge from C. C. C. whenever he had another job awaiting him. Approximate cost of the corps for a year...
...years ago Mrs. McLaughlin heard that a Morton Grove farmer named William Schroeder was maltreating his hogs. On behalf of the Illinois Humane Society she inspected his farm several times, finally had him arrested. A police court fined him $10. He appealed, won a reversal in Cook County's Criminal Court. Last week in Waukegan he was suing Mrs. McLaughlin for $10,000 for false arrest, malicious prosecution...
...Fine Arts Theatre this week saves the price of both a Baedeker and a billet from Thomas Cook & Son if you're interested in a trip through a part of new Russia. "Soviets on Parade" opens with a ten minute review of industrial and agricultural Russia. It is interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant...