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...Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room, found that the bird-quarantine laws (effective in 1930) were not retroactive, told her to bring the bird across...
Zaslavsky on White: An obscure American newspaperman of "doubtful reputation." His book's conclusions: "The standard stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its aroma of calumnies, unpardonable ignorance and undisguised malice . . . [They] reveal the features of the worst section of the American Press...
Colonel Crowe's fondness for what he calls his "Baptist Cocktail" has made him also feared by his friends. His recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good...
...meals in his hotel, two dozen napkins were stacked, by his orders, on his table; with them he wiped every dish and piece of silverware as it came from the kitchen. In his heyday, he lived at the Waldorf-Astoria and had a fabulous reputation as a host. He invariably took his guests to his laboratory and treated them to an electrical display, which included the then startling trick of passing 1,000,000 volts through his body...
...Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked. His mother sat beside the crib in the living room while Nubbins took special pains to be a "good boy"; he rolled over for his nap without argument and listened quietly as Mother read The Night before Christmas...