Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italo-Ethiopian conflict to the World War, which Japan made the occasion for imposing upon China the notorious Twenty-One Demands. Warning its Chinese readers to expect redoubled harshness from Japan this time, the China Times declared in painful ideographs, "China is like a piece of pork on the kitchen table waiting to be carved...
Gunnery is Admiral Backhouse's specialty and his favorite yarn is about a retired gunner's mate who dozed off and let his evening newspaper fall against the red-hot kitchen stove. "Fire!'" screamed his wife as the paper blazed. Waking up with a start, the mate rammed the family cat into the oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago...
...extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance. She then wrote two letters, flattering him, pretending that she had important information, dressed herself seductively in a gown of loose white Indian muslin, put green instead of black ribbons...
...dirt, I found no dirt in the mouth or the nostrils. On holding the infant up in the cold air, it started to cry feebly, moving both the arms and the legs. I rushed into the house with the baby, calling for hot water and warm blankets. In the kitchen, I tied the cord, placed the baby in a warm, bath and cleaned off the brown dirt clinging to the body. In the meantime, the child began to cry louder and artificial respiration was unnecessary. I then placed the baby in warm blankets. . . . I have been called upon to attend...
...world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment. His wife, broadening her philanthropies to include the Marjorie Post Hutton Food Station for Women & Children, was referred to in Manhattan newspapers as "Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." Last month when it was announced that Mr. & Mrs. Hutton had separated, the tabloids hardly noticed...