Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking of words, "cumshaw" (generally pronounced commishaw) is not restricted to shipping men. Chinese servants in the East are all accustomed to getting cumshaw. The Chino cook buys the groceries for the household and if he does not get his cumshaw from the dealer at the end of the month, he buys elsewhere. This practice is generally considered quite ethical. "Cumshaw'' is Pidgin English and evidently is derived from "commission...
Busy newshawks immediately figured that if he got time off for good behavior Snorkey would spend six years, eight months, 15 days in the penitentiary and eleven months in the Cook County jail, a total of seven years, seven months, 15 days. By that time he would be 40. In addition to his $50,000 fine he was charged with court costs estimated by the prosecution at $30,000, and he still owed $215,000 in back taxes...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
HARVARD TEXAS Nazro, l.e. r.e., DuBose Hardy, l.t. r.t., Moody Bancroft, l.g. r.g., Cook Cunningham, c. c., Howle Talbot, r.g. l.g., Baumgarten Kopans, r.t. l.t., Blanton Hageman, r.e. l.e., Bibby Wood, q.b. q.b., Elkins Crickard, l.h.b. r.h.b., Burr Schereschewsky, r.h.b. l.h.b. Stafford White...
...Longhorn backfield Key and Stafford will cause the Crimson defense considerable trouble, while Captain Baumgrten and Cook in the guard positions are bulwarks of strength. There is a possibility that Furrh may start at one of the end positions for the Texans, but otherwise the lineups should remain unchanged...