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...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 to Canton...
...Chicago a huge turkey was cooked in a huge oven in a huge (24 ft. long) electric range. It came out done to a turn. Satisfied, Edison General Electric Appliance Co. announced that the $5,000 stove to be installed in the White House kitchen, now being renovated at a cost of $152,000, had passed all tests, was fit to cook the President's breakfast or a dinner for 150 diplomats...
Moreover, it is not necessary to convince oven the great mass of fairly intelligent people. In 1932, it was only necessary to convince one man. Unfortunately, that man was convinced by light-headed economists and America is the worse...
...loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
...takes Back Bay residents to think up peculiar meals, though. Country folks have faith in fresh air and quantity to keep their dogs healthy, but poodle owners in the city devise meals calling for proportions in ounces, with dishes like lamb hearts, "limited milk," haliveroil, and special oven dried crumbs to maintain the morale and health of their pets...