Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about. It was bitter cold (6°), and he needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently spread by an explosion in the kitchen range, licked over...
Funds will be raised by drives at Harvard and Radcliffe, and by appeals to outside individuals and business organizations. Gifts in kind, including clothing, kitchen ware, first-aid kits, soap and toys will be collected in Greater Boston...
Life on a California prison farm was a humbling experience for Big Bill Tilden. During his 7½ months in jail (for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But his prison term hadn't really changed him. He had just published a book, and in it he was still the arrogant and unblushing showoff...
...famous for its hospitality. Then in 1835, Judge Samuel Fay bought the place, and for the next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same time, all shelling peas. It was also in Fay House that the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a friend of Fay's, wrote the words of "Fair Harvard" for the College's 200th anniversary...
...ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...