Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women only are courses in the Y. W. C. A. building. There they may learn how to make quilts, hooked rugs and lamp shades from Miss Clarice Smith, a sanatorium nurse, in a course in Home Handicraft ("Beautify the home-nest"). Mrs. Andrew Wood, housewife, shares her culinary skill in New Wrinkles in Cooking. Mrs. H. S. Patton, wife of a Michigan State College professor, teaches the school's second most popular course, Personality Plus. In it 158 women are learning how to meet strangers, use cosmetics, improve their conversational resources...
...favorite was Soprano Marion Talley, a local telegrapher's daughter whose career Storeman Seigmund Harzfeld helped to finance. This year's music chief is doughty Powell Campbell Groner, president of Kansas City Public Service Co. Burned though he was from going to sleep under an ultraviolet lamp, he appeared last week in Convention Hall to introduce the orchestra which the Kansas City Times headlined as a "triumph in music...
...found a model boudoir set up in the lobby through which one usually walks to the dining hall and common rooms. Over the flagstone floor someone had carefully laid a rug, and all around the room were tastefully arranged morris chairs, a sofa, a table on which stood a lamp, and along one wall even a bed. In the center had been placed a card table on which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped...
...passed on by the judges; any bird (not canaries or common sparrows); the future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting; a lighted red lamp or lantern; the red carnation of Mr. Clifton Webb at the Music Box; the initialed handkerchief of New York's most charming and honest banker; three red hairs from a lady's head; a mauve comb; a live monkey; a shoe of Jimmy Durante; any unused foreign stamp...
...supper. Decide on eggs scrambled with chipped beef and chopped celery. Light the oil stove and put double boiler on to heat. Twenty minutes to six already. Our time is two hours behind Eastern Standard. Eggs mixed, celery chopped, beef shredded, ready for cooking. Light oil lamp, set table, put on bread, preserves, butter, milk, catsup, sugar and cream. Put two tablespoons coffee (think that's right) in drip pot and put two cups water on to boil. Nearly six. Egg mixture put over now boiling water and stirred. Done in four minutes. Five after...