Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abbot is now rebuilding the cooker and expects to succeed in demonstrating the possibility of a kitchen stove heated by sun rays. But it would be too expensive and intricate for the average household at present, though perhaps useful in regions where coal and wood were unobtainable...
...Poincaré as Minister of Foreign Affairs has been admirably firm, dauntless and energetic in the conduct of the battle of the Ruhr, but as President of the Council of Ministers he has found internal politics nauseating and has been reluctant to take action because it required a certain kitchen cleaning which is repugnant...
...draped cradle within the door of one of New York's great institutions where, every year for 60 years, poor mothers and rich, humble- and proud alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th...
...bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
...written extracts by over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially composed by Dame Ethel Smyth and other great ones; replicas of the royal jewels by Miss Winifred Whiteside, a 19-year-old miniaturist; tiny grand piano, Rolls-Royce car, typewriters, telephones, rugs, tapestries, kitchen utensils, bathroom and plumbing fixtures, heating system, electric elevators, completely appointed wardrobes, golf clubs, guns and foils-everything necessary to royal existence-are there. All is English-made and in the best English taste. A complete royal family of six-inch dolls, representative guest and a corps of servants will...