Word: kitchened
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...which is considered chic in profaner abodes. White stucco-walls of a peculiarly warm tone, a few austere paintings (not all religious), and plain dark furniture (not all antique) are as suitable to monkish taste as to "The Home Beautiful." The brothers' wholesome fare is supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb on the belltower, where boxing gloves have been seen to peep out of a dark corner...
...local labor leader, who, after a drawn out battle with University authorities, won for College waitresses wage increases of from one to two dollars per week last year, stated that he had asked the members of the union to cooperate in reducing costs in the kitchen...
...Except for more variations on the menu, little has been done to increase the efficiency in the kitchen. In the handling of such large quantities of food there is bound to be waste, but there need not be as much as there...
Davis went in. In the hallway, on a mattress, lay the naked body of his wife, Lolita, in a welter of blood. Beside her was a broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...
Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...