Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN EHRMAN, WM. J. MOELLER, GEORGE C. HELLICKSON, GEO. S. MYERS, GUS B. BROSE, IRVING W. COOK...
...Wrangell, Alaska, the temperature climbed to 100°, where it had never been seen before. Near Chicago in Cook County's Oak Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...South Dakota. ... It has not rained in this town for eleven months. . . . In every direction the fields go off to the horizon, brown and full of dust. . . . You cannot take a bath in this hotel. ... If you want a drink of water, you go down to the kitchen. The cook opens the door of the electric refrigerator and pours out three-quarters of a glassful of something that looks like water and tastes like iron filings...
Willoughby Corbo was a by-blow. His father was a noble wastrel, his mother a cook. To avoid the unwonted inconveniences of parentage, Lord Ollebeare foisted off his bastard on a childless brother, a mean but respectable citizen, and thought no more about it. Willoughby's education was informal. His mentors were a coachman, whom he admired, a butler, whom he hated, and the books in his foster-father's library. At 20, without benefit of university, he was sent into the world to make his living. Willoughby's first and only job was as private secretary...
...makai, toward the sea, and mauka, toward the mountains. Last week all Hawaiians were looking makai. Somewhere below the horizon a sleek grey cruiser was slicing its way westward through the long swells of the Pacific. Aboard was the most distinguished visitor to the islands since Explorer-Captain James Cook first stepped ashore 156 years...