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...after a long legal battle. Rich men have split their personalities by setting up alter egos in the form of corporations and creating losses in some to balance profits in others. "These transactions," said he, "partake of the same unreal character as if a small taxpayer incorporated his household kitchen as a restaurant and deducted his expenses and losses from his taxable income because he has so few customers...
...name "Offrecords" defines as neatly as Hors d'oeuvres does in French, the position these fancy bits take on any menu. . . . As far back as 30 years ago the Hors d'oeuvre was not even a part of kitchen curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart...
...flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles and his glowering pressagent (Lionel Stander), they are definitely the former...
...ridin' home to my kitchen range...
...connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests drew their own drinks, at 4? apiece. Seven years later when Apollos Smith built a less Spartan...