Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses a Sunday at her Roman Catholic Church. Once in a while Mr. Hoan goes with her. Mr. Hoan thinks Mrs. Hoan is the best cook in the world...
...Cook had drawn no salary or commissions or profits of any kind...
FREDERICK A. COOK Chicago...
...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
...days later Candidate Borah was in Chicago to try again. With $500 from his own pocket, Edgar John Cook hired Chicago's great Civic Opera House for Senator Borah's Illinois opening. Only 1,000 people turned out to listen, but Orator Borah did far better than at Youngstown. Said...