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Word: kitchener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kitchen itself one corner is devoted to pastry, with a large electric dough mixer and a row of enormous cans on casters labelled "Bread Flour," "Cake Flour," "Whole Wheat Flour." Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bogged in Budget | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...wheeled back from his evening swim in the White House pool. Down he went to his first official entertainment of the season. The Cabinet and their wives with a sprinkling of tycoons had the pleasure of eating the first State dinner cooked in the new White House kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...East 92nd St. were in Mrs. Hutton's capable hands. Few days before Mrs. Hutton managed to squeeze in the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Marjorie Post Hutton Free Food Station from which derives her tabloid title of "Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." Featured was a personality contest for girls, the winner receiving a big Hutton doll and a big Hutton kiss. Then the girls sang Mrs. Hutton a song ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reshuffle | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Perhaps any actress, seated in a Shack's kitchen and wearing a dirty silk kimono, can win an audience's attention by lamenting in a voice of deepest vulgarity the many servants in her family's old home, calling God to witness her misery now that she has "lost her voice and her French." Evelyn Varden in this play does it better than most actresses could. As Cecelia Jobes, she drills into her three daughters the idea that the sex act is an abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...Natchez, Miss, three members of Herbert Reed's family were hospitalized and two suffered at home after a two-month diet of lead arsenate. Bought for flower spray and left on a kitchen shelf, the poison had been tracked into the family's food and dishes by roaches and bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food & Death | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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