Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha-a-a-a-!"), did all that a master's timing could do for some jokes so long-fused they may explode on next week's show. By lavishing a lifetime...
...White costumes, pretty Vernon Duke background music. And Anouilh has given it good writing enough, and elegant mannerism enough, of its own. But at times the play seems merely thin where it should be diaphanous, merely slight where it ought to be airy. Perhaps it needs a born pastry cook like Molnar, with his delicately browned, bite-sized ironies and his lightly philosophic macaroons. Perhaps it needs a more pervasive verve. Perhaps it only needs a wicked fairy, or a fuming stepsister, or a missing slipper. But for all its many graces, it is a touch unsatisfying...
...Assistant Secretary of Labor J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins, 63, first Negro ever appointed to a U.S. sub-Cabinet post. Missouri-born Republican Wilkins practiced law in Chicago, is a past president of the Cook County bar association...
...love the way you press my shirts. I think I may love you too. Interested?" She blushed, but daringly wrote her answer--"Interested, sorta," and slipped it in the collar-slot. Ten days later came another shirt from x428Fy and, sure enough, another note: "If you can cook like you can write I may be smitten beyond recall. Fascinated?" This time she almost swooned, and wrote back, "Wow, am I!" Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived...
...Them Eat Cake. In London, after Eileen Childs was awarded $13,160 when she testified that her injuries in a road accident made her forget how to cook, that she had been forced to serve canned beans and peas for nearly a year, unable to cook her husband's steak and kidney pudding, her husband got an additional $2,100 compensation...