Word: food
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance. The patient is not confined to his bed, and no surgical operation of any kind is contemplated." There also seemed to be nothing in particular the matter with Señora Rubio, but she and Señor Ortiz Rubio stayed on at Johns Hopkins, enjoying the appetizing food, complimenting their nurses on the excellent service, daily receiving from Mexicans throughout the U. S. expensive baskets of flowers. Later he was able to pay a Christmasday call on President Hoover in Washington...
...very happy, waiting only to die. Could they bring him anything? He declined a two-year supply of food which they carried up to him in tins, but accepted an overcoat. He was getting old, he said, and the nights in his cave were sometimes so cold the snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything...
...director of the Opera Comique was present and she was asked to sing for him. So impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs to buy her morning coffee...
Eielson is vice president and general manager of Alaskan Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...
...extend their searching range, the five planes of the Alaskan Airways assembled there, planned a fuel base half way between Teller and Cape North. Some idea of the hardships of Arctic cold and lack of adequate food may be had from the story of the McAlpine air party in search of copper marooned for nearly two months above the Arctic Circle and living chiefly on the charity of Eskimos (TIME...