Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall of the pound had upped travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home, The pound being where it is, can bearded Montagu Collet...
...faculty is well paid ... to teach -not to carry on research or to write books. ... A Professor of Hunting & Fishing will fill an important place. It is just as important to know how to make a camp and cook a meal in the woods as it is to have an acquaintance with Roman history; as essential to appreciate the open country as be able to speak French...
Chef of the hotel (officially: "Director of the Waldorf-Astoria Kitchens") is Alexandre Gastaud, a pupil for 40 years of the famed-to-gourmets Auguste Escoffier. Chef Gastaud used to cook for food-fond Edward VII. Director of the Towers will be Commendatore Guilio Gelardi who is being loaned by Claridge's of London for the fall and winter seasons. But best known of the Waldorf potentates will be Oscar Tschirky, 65, maître d'hôtel at the old Waldorf, with whom the tycoons and celebrities of many lands are proud to claim acquaintance. During...
Apartment de luxe (3 rooms), unique and beautiful style of decorations not to be seen in any other apartment house; real Cinderella dream and the kitchen done most artistically: fit for fairies to cook in. ... Phone Mr. Rose, EStabrook...
...member of a distinguished Harvard family (but he stutters a bit, a disadvantage in a Harvard president); Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (he probably would not accept); Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of Harvard Law School, personable son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson; Cancer Fighter Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted president of the University of Michigan; and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian (but these two are considered too "advanced"). Meanwhile, tight-lipped President Lowell, who will be one of the seven to vote for his successor, is said to have ''someone...