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...dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
...League's commissioners added a few spicy details, stories of rapes, torturings, floggings, soldiers "who amused themselves by collecting one by one the hairs of the chief's long mustache." Liberian slavers have two favorite tortures, the commission reported, known respectively as "Getting the Basket" and "Putting in the Kitchen." In the first a large round basket is filled with earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks. In the second, the victim is roped round...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
...children -standing and waiting in six inches of snow. "All the good restaurants and hotels had many cancellations of dinners, balls and coming-out parties that had been planned. This season we, for one, haven't had a single cancellation. And I haven't seen a soup kitchen anywhere. Even in 1908, after the Roosevelt panic, there was more hardship than you can find now." Meantime, the following took place all over the country as the nation's relief organizations accelerated their pace in the race against human misery: ¶ In Washington President Hoover asked Congress...
...House. Its southern wing will form the dining hall, a panelled room, which will accommodate all the members of the House. It is connected with Westmorly Court by a serving room, and by a passage for the members of the House. Adams House will have its own kitchen, newly installed in the basement of Westmorly Court, and completely separate from the service of any other House...