Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the voters of Illinois smacked the face of Publisher William Franklin Knox by giving Senator William Edgar Borah a majority in the Presidential preference vote everywhere except in Cook County. Fortnight ago the voters of California rapped the knuckles of Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon by electing a slate of uninstructed delegates to the Republican National Convention. Last week the voters of Ohio made it all even between the three active Republican candidates by boxing the ears of Senator Borah...
Thence, back to the Tower, and to read what W. L. Phepls spoke of Santayana. I much surprised Santayana has not dined out in ten years (for, I hear, he was a popular member of society while at Harvard) and that he does now cook his own breakfast: and that at the age of nine he could not speak a word of English but that now he is probably the best prose writer living and certainly the greatest philosopher that ever thumbed his nose at all that was the Harvard philosophy department...
Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
expatriates. During the War, Mr. Benet helped found the American Ambulance Service. Just before the Benets closed their apartment on the Avenue de Camoens, packed up their collection of art and pensioned their cook and chauffeur, Parisians joined the American Colony in giving the departing couple a heartfelt farewell...
...school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers. Despite the Democratic landslide in 1932, he made a good showing on the Republican ticket for State Treasurer. In 1934 only Cook County opposition kept him from being elected Representative-at-Large...