Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...
Deafness led to inner concentration but it made the man increasingly irascible, a pathetic groping figure when he ventured outside music. Biographer Herriot describes Beethoven quarreling with his cook, showering her with vermicelli, taking over the kitchen work himself. He liked to walk but he gesticulated so wildly that children often jeered him. For the first performance of Missa Solemnis he stood in the pit. supposedly to help conduct. He was oblivious to the fact that the singers skipped the passages which seemed to them too difficult...
...Manuel once expressed his own Nationalist philosophy (1921) as follows: "We [Filipinos] are like, let us say, a young married couple starting out in life. A mother-in-law is helping run their establishment. She may be a perfectly admirable woman, kind, generous, affectionate, wise and the best cook on earth, but the young household does not want her. . . . A block down the street, or across the river, the household thinks of her with profound affection and regard . . . but it does not want her forever stirring the pot and dominating the bill of fare...
Acquitted. Robert M. ("Bob") Sweitzer, 67, potent Chicago Democrat, longtime (1910-34) Cook County Clerk; of criminal responsibility for a $414,129 shortage in his official accounts discovered by his successor as County Clerk (TIME, June 17); by a Criminal Court jury; in Chicago. Still promising to make good his shortage as soon as his own auditors could check his accounts, Democrat Sweitzer moved to regain the County Treasurership from which he was ousted last summer when, after promising immediate restoration of most of his shortage, he failed to produce a cent...
...verse was published before she was 16, sponsored by the California poet, George Sterling. Born in Seattle, she graduated from the University of Washington in 1931, married Poet Joseph Auslander (The Winged Horse) in 1933, now lives in Manhattan. Tall, slender, black-haired, she is extremely shy, likes to cook and run her home, does not believe that poets must necessarily be temperamental or that they require a room of their own before their inspirations can flower...