Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With crisis met and duty done, he resumed the day's meditations...
...images of four great swans watched her dreaming face, and over her lay a coverlet of antique French lace pricked with a legend that one did not translate aloud. With Admah Holtz, things were otherwise. His white-trash father drank himself to death, day by day, in the cabin kitchen where Ma Holtz made peppermint-drops for her son to hawk in the streets. Sometimes the girls in Miss Martincastle's school patronized him, Flora Lee once among them. Having seen, Admah never forgot her. Her arrogant and perfumed phantom lived in his memory while he put the peppermints...
...befits the world's most eminent democrat, M. Clemenceau lives sim- ply. We lunched and dined in the kitchen. He is at peace with mankind. His soul and heart know no rancor. He is attending to his garden, as all great statesmen of France do when their public service is ended...
...grave peril." For three days, he and his brave men protected the person of M. Painlevé. So powerful was he, that Députés obeyed his orders. So meticulous was he in carrying out his duty, that he inspected the food being cooked in the kitchen of the Chambre restaurant "to see if it were poisoned." He was a model of devotion, a paragon of a Secret Police inspector...
...Manhattan, an Italian's back itched. He asked his wife to scratch it. She refused. He dragged her to the kitchen, slashed her jugular vein with a bread knife, sat eating breakfast at a table when policemen arrived...