Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brick house filled with French period furniture. There he lives with his wife, the former Minnie McNeal who, aged 17, married him, aged 20, in 1886. Their two sons practice law in San Francisco. Worried about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile town car. He lost two cars by fire when he was living at Calvert Manor, outside Washington which, much to his ire, was bought from under him by Arkansas' late Senator Caraway. He sallies occasionally into...
...cried Demetrios Lazarimos before the five gowned justices of Athens' Court of Appeals sitting in judgment on the U. S. Government's petition to extradite Mr. Insull for trial in Cook County, Ill. on charges of larceny and embezzlement...
Arrested in New York on two grand larceny indictments was eccentric Jeanette M. Lewis, 50, stocky, grey-haired onetime Greenwich Village restaurant cook who was given a loud hail ("Savior of Labrador") and quick farewell by the Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty...
...Manhattan where concerts will keep the Vienna boys over the holidays Wilhelm Herp was set to work last week paring and scrubbing vegetables in the apartment occupied by the Singing Boys. Hereafter whenever the choir stops long enough to set up housekeeping he will help in the kitchen, occasionally cook. Wilhelm Herp likes his new job. He can eat all day if he likes, and whenever he concocts anything the boys like especially they applaud him as vigorously as audiences applaud their singing...
...made any pretense at listing all the pastimes at which Miss Didrikson is about as expert as anyone of her sex, it would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with...