Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Type No. 1 in his collection is a Franklin stove. Type No. 2 is the same with a covered front ("The girls," said Hobe, "got precious and wanted fancy doors on their stoves"). Type No. 3 is the box stove sometimes known as the "chunk," forerunner of the kitchen range...
...Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers; small individual checks are bolstered by a door charge. At the uppity Club Royale executives are coming back after months when they were too busy on war work to gallivant. Burlesque strippers disrobe before ever-growing audiences. Only complaint of the operators: kitchen help and waiters are hard to find, and harder to keep...
...Money. In Russellville, Ark., R. H. Barnett, who had hidden $102.66 in the kitchen stove, forgot. He got 66? change...
...world has not made a more beautiful chair since then." The trouble with contemporary furniture, he declares, is too much variety of design. Says he: "Furniture should be standardized the way cars, refrigerators or telephones are standardized. You don't worry whether you have a Louis XVI kitchen...
...camp was being built. The soldiers agreed to pay $10 a month for room. Mrs. Ercell Brooks provided beds for five (she had to buy two new beds at $20 each and $40 worth of linen, had to put two beds in the dining room and eat in the kitchen). "They are fine to have in the house," she said. Horace Jackson put up a colonel in his guest room and two lieutenants in the garage. Editor Mat Jones put up a captain and his wife: "We just gave them the run of the house and we got along fine...