Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left their stalls last week, crowded into a schoolroom where a plainly dressed woman, obviously and proudly pregnant, talked about food and coal. Her tone was conversational, her words easy to understand. She knew what interested them, did Jeannette Vermeersch. Listening to her was like a chat around a kitchen table. It was hard to realize that Jeannette Vermeersch might be the next First Lady of France...
...Edgar R. Ailes had just finished the breakfast dishes and was reading the morning paper in her kitchen. Puzzled by a muffled sound of singing, she walked to a front window and looked out. What she saw sent her rushing to phone her husband, treasurer of the strike-bound Detroit Steel Products...
...modern of cities is also the dirtiest. . . . When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...
...remained skeptical. We wanted to see the clay from which the powder was made. Then a gaunt woman emerged from another kitchen carrying a half-dozen big chunks of the raw product, weighing altogether perhaps seven or eight pounds. The others looked on quietly. The woman said something to the interpreter. He turned to us and told the amazing reason why she had not shown this hoard of clay sooner: "She was hiding it from the others...
Bess Truman had some more ladies in to the White House-this time right into the kitchen. Out went the servants, and into aprons went the First Lady and friends. Occasion: luncheon for 70 students of the First Lady's Spanish teacher, who major-dominated the cooking. Climactic dish: picadillo...