Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trapezoidal dining room with its glittering candlebra and bleak yellow walls doesn't supply as much inward contentment as what comes off the serving line. When all is said and done, Leverett probably stands first gastronomically among the five Houses connected with the mass-production line of the University kitchen...
...after Woodring won the nomination, Rooney found himself shoved into the kitchen while Woodring staged a one-man show in the parlor. Woodring scarcely mentioned the slate of World War II veterans Rooney had carefully put together; he ignored Rooney's advice, and overlooked him when state and county chairmen were picked. But what really burned up Rooney, who had contributed "rather handsomely," was Woodring's ungrateful statement that he had had no expenses in the campaign. That...
Thanks to its individual kitchen, Adams offers what is probably the best cuisine among the Houses. Yardlings should find its fare a welcome relief from the Union offerings...
...piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...