Word: home
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thus insulting Mom and Home Cooking, Columnist Coates last week was paying a heavy price. More than 260 readers had flooded the Mirror with letters challenging Coates to take potluck at their homes, and vowing to make him eat humble pie. A man with a cast-iron stomach and an eye for a circulation chart, Coates accepted most of the 260 invitations and offered prizes for the tastiest meals...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...
...news of what was done there soon began to spread. The big, smiling "Padre Sahib" had turned barren and eroded acres into rich meadows of wheat. He taught the villagers how to plow and irrigate their crops. He set up a department of agricultural chemistry, and a home economics course for women...
...carry Christ home with me from the altar, I am afraid He will have to come to the kitchen, because much of my time is spent there . . . If I am to create, and I believe God made me to do just that, why can't I create feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke...
...Soon after her first pictures appeared in U.S. magazines, smitten strangers sent her presents, including a bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could easily make more if she worked a 40-hour week. Once, working hard, she made...