Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What typewriters they forgot to destroy...
Just before the German S.S. Hansa left Hamburg with 993 passengers and 400 crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
Including both steward dietitians like Mr. Heaman, feeders of groups (undergraduates, the employes of big corporations, etc.), and the traditionalists of the industry, old-line French, German and Alsatian "kitchen men," Association members buy upwards of $500,000,000 worth of food every year. Since Repeal they have handled nearly that much liquor business. Typical was the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding last July when caterers offered what was, for them, a skimpy repast of hors d'oeuvres, ice cream and cakes, but made up for it with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention...
Before Mrs. Bridges fell out the window, my aunt was unaware of the identity of her neighbors, although their kitchen windows were but 4 or 5 ft. apart. The Bridges' daughter used to enjoy taking my aunt's dog, Difo, for walks, but my aunt didn't know the girl's last name. Once in her presence she raked that terrible Harry Bridges over the coals but the child did not even peep...
Surprised, too, were the police. They assumed that he pushed his wife out the window. They questioned my aunt and tried to make her admit she had heard Bridges and his wife quarreling. They went upstairs into my aunt's kitchen and measured the distance between the windows of the two flats to ascertain if she could have heard any words, had there been...