Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord or no lord. They be fine people, the Digbys, got no swank with them either, friendly as you please. And there's no doubt about it," adds Mrs. Shuttle, "he could...
...school-car teachers, housing is no problem: one end of the car is fitted up as a living-bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. The Government supplies all equipment, ice for the icebox, oil for the lamps, coal to keep the car warm when temperature nips around 55° below. Passing trains drop off magazines and newspapers. Main out-of-pocket expense: food, which is bought along...
Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...
...determined how the disease spreads; it is as likely to strike on Park Avenue as in Hell's Kitchen, hits harder in suburbs than in cities. There is no proof that polio is spread by flies, drinking water, milk, swimming in infected waters...
...Congress. The slide-rule answers nearly always meant that prices went up a little bit here, a little more there. On a few typical days last week OPA hiked ceilings on autos (7%), cotton textiles (7%), kid leather (30%), sofas (6%), hot-water bottles (10%), oilcloth (13½%), enamel kitchen utensils (5%). Off went ceilings on window washing, contract janitorial service, sour cherries and imported food specialties...