Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Wills. In true Chicago style, Cook County's Coroner Walter McCarron, a politician and trucker with no medical training, leaped happily into the case-and the headlines. Thorne had made one will leaving everything to his mother. But a second will, made nine days before his death, bequeathed most of the money to pretty Maureen Ragen and her mother, Mrs. Aleen Ragen. Day after day, Coroner McCarron called before the television newsreel cameras the weeping women who loved Thorne-and now seek his inheritance-to cast suspicion on each other...
John Sherman Cooper the younger was born on a sultry August morning in 1901 and delivered by the family cook and midwife, Aunt Elvira Booker. He grew up in the protective bosom of Harvey's Hill and, with his brothers and sisters, attended Mrs. Anna Mourning's private school, an establishment maintained largely for young Coopers. (At one time five of Mrs. Mourning's seven pupils were Coopers.) Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John...
...talking for the delegation and soon tired of one persistent line of questioning. "Food!" he barked at an inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet embassy in London to help Mrs. Pearce prepare such delicacies as borsch and kasha...
Three months passed, and Turner said nothing more about the book. Then, in May, one of the College janitors, told McMillan that he had heard the professor had been dismissed. A cook for a local white family said she had heard a similar rumor...
...homosexual cook at the Bear Flag who is writing a novel called The Pi Root of Oedipus...