Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed through Wisconsin in July. To Regulars, Mr. Kohler could offer the facts that he helped nominate Mr. Hoover at Kansas City; that he is a Big Business Man-$45,000 per annum salary, master of one of the largest U. S. manufactories of bath tubs, lavatories, waterclosets, kitchen sinks (in colors); that he keeps fine horses, flies an airplane, favors the St. Lawrence waterway...
There were no more than a normal number of celebrities. One of them met, shook hands with 22 Smith College girls. He and his wife inspected the ship. He liked the Punch and Judy shows; she, the kitchen. Stewards, officers knew who they were. Many passengers did not. They were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, en route to Paris...
...Pond was written by two astute dramatists, A. E. Thomas (Come Out of the Kitchen, Only 38) and George Middleton (The House of a Thousand Candles, Potty with a Past), husband of Fola La Follette (pioneer Lucy Stoner, daughter of the late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company...
...Upper Finlay River, British Columbia, one J. Omera, a trapper, suffered frostbite in the four small toes of his right foot. Soon he observed that his bitten toes had become infected. Since there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...
...last week, received a wireless message saying that her Paris house had been robbed. She prepared to return to the seat of the mystery. The Vanderbilt governess had discovered the lock of the servants' entrance forced open, when she arrived at the house early one morning. On the kitchen table were scattered miniatures with their valuable settings ripped off and a chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked. Yet the housekeeper and six servants remembered hearing no unusual noises...