Word: cooks
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...British govern the atoll as a crown colony, based on Captain James Cook's discovery of it in 1777. But in one of history's mildest international disputes, the U.S. has never relinquished, nor seriously pressed, its own claim, based on the working of guano deposits by an American firm there in the 1850s. Occupied jointly by the U.S. and Britain in World War II, the atoll supported a U.S. airbase. Britain had another Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, 200 miles south of Java. In 1958 the island was transferred to Australia, which still uses...
...known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed in undergarments and taboos; the Victorian tourist, with a former Baptist missionary, Thomas Cook, for guide, came home from the Continent more insular than he had gone away; and there is the famous tale of the Victorian playgoer who, emerging from one of the more murder-strewn royal Greek tragedies, murmured: "How different from the home life of our own dear Queen...
...Johnson follower. He knows his way around the Pentagon: he was the Army's deputy counselor in 1951, later became an Assistant Secretary of the Army. In Fort Worth, his name is almost as well known as that of his family's longtime, locally beloved housekeeper and cook, Emma Victoria Elizabeth Mary Katherine Virginia Smith-better known as "Mammy...
...members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes to make things easier for them at public school. In her drab apartment over a garage, Emilia Rasco keeps smiling. "We are free," she explains. "I am happy to be here...
...Shipman Payson and sister of Publisher John Hay Whitney, assured an interviewer that her socially impeccable family had always confined its patronage to the National League. Single instance of backsliding: "The time that Wheaties was running a most-popular-player contest. Mother [the late Mrs. Payne Whitney] called the cook and asked her please to buy lots of Wheaties for the children and to clip the box tops so she could vote for Joe DiMaggio...