Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months in prison before going...
...Tecumseh Okla., the State Training (reform) School for Girls last month gave for 38 honor inmates a dance to which selected young men were invited. During the evening Hercule Cook, 21, a store clerk met and renewed his interest in Evelyn Steel, 17, a friend he had not seen for two years. Last week in the honor cottage of the institution, they were married and Mrs. Cook was paroled to Mr. Cook...
...after that he was made page boy to a nobleman, because he fidgeted shyly when the nobleman's daughter Nina kissed him, he remembered her saying: "You stupid little page boy, if your eyes weren't so blue I should ask my father to kill you and cook your flesh in a pot and give it to the dogs . . . and God will punish you and you will burn in hell forever . . . so take that [kissing him fiercely...
...sorry the Civil Liberties Committee at that distance from the situation sees things as it does," cried Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly. "The Cook County coroner's jury was an unbiased jury of citizens." The Cook County coroner's jury was made up of six unemployed American Legionnaires...
...editor, manager and ghostwriter of Famous Features Syndicate, 39-year-old Leslie Fulenwider had dished up and sold the "own" stories of such headliners as Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, Queen Marie of Rumania, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nila Cram Cook (from Iowa to Gandhi and back), the late Mrs. Elsa Einstein ("Joys & Sorrows of Being a Famous Man's Wife"). Last week Leslie Fulenwider decided it was time he did something on his own. He arranged to take a parachute jump, his first, and describe his sensations in a syndicated article he would ghostwrite for himself...