Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June, Piatigorsky flew to Beverly Hills and joined the others in ten days of grueling practice and argument, working ten hours a day. No outside musicians were allowed to eavesdrop. Said Rubinstein: "That was the kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back...
Like lay brothers in a religious house, Kent Schoolboys do most of the work around their establishment themselves. They make beds, wait tables, do kitchen duty, scrub floors. Another part of the Kent pattern since its founding in a Connecticut farmhouse 43 years ago by Father Frederick H. Sill: a headmaster drawn from the Episcopal (and monastic) Order of the Holy Cross...
...News of Tomorrow program; the repairs, he said, would cost about $1,000,000, or five times the sum appropriated for it by Parliament. (Minister of Works Charles Key denied that the original appropriation would be "materially exceeded.") The amount spent on ventilators in the kitchen and a chandelier in the library, cried Communist Kennedy, would have built homes for 150 workers...
...bedrooms were contrastingly tiny-only 12 by 14 ft.-and so was the 8 by 19 ft. kitchen, but with their built-in furniture they had the neat efficiency of cruiser cabins and galley. There was nothing to sweep under, and no space to mislay things. The two bathrooms had overhead infra-red lamps to take the chill off. Neutra, with his characteristic attention to detail, had taken down a hanging from his own house to show Mrs. B. how the living-room draperies should be made...
According to TIME, Murphy began quietly with: "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion." Then, later: "Let us suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face. We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face." Finally, referring to Hiss: "Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous...