Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scream after scream issued from a kitchen near Jericho, L. I. The door opened, a man entered, alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror...
...number of towels placed daily in White House office lavatories from 175 to 88; orders that all lights be turned out promptly when not needed; repeated use of manila envelopes for documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
...located on one edge of the property, and will eventually be a part of the larger edifice which will be built around three sides of a hollow square. For the present, however, the wing will be complete in itself, with a chapel, common room, reception room, refectory, kitchen, and a number of cells. Modern construction and plumbing will do much to make the edifice more comfortable than most of the old continental monasteries, but the furnishings will be simple and without luxury...
...Wing was both surprised and perturbed to learn that the dining hall, so long neglected, is to have its hour of popularity before finally closing its doors. As patronage has dwindled, the management has reduced the kitchen facilities and the serving force in order to minimize the weekly deficit as much as possible. Whether these facilities will be sufficient tonight he is in doubt...
...built for a "commons", has been used ever since as a University Dining Room. For years it was so crowded that the University authorities decided upon an extension and in the summer of 1905 an additional wing on the Kirkland Street side was built in order to provide larger kitchen space. In those days the Dining Hall, filled to overflowing with students, presented a spectacle like that in the commons of an English college today...