Word: kitchened
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...Kitchen Must Be Central...
...Story.* On a December night in 1906, a ferocious storm swept across Glebeshire. In its cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor...
...Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs for the neighborhood urchins; kept Harvard boys out of scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school, hospital. The saccharine type of "the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood," for which she was the unwilling inspiration, would have been aghast, as another generation is reassured, by the tart honesty of her journal: "I'm selfish. I want to go away and rest...
Lynn on a Saturday afternoon, when Mrs. Daugherty is in the Hub buying lineoleum for the kitchen floor, and diapers for the kid, or Harvard on a Saturday afternoon, when the town goes mad, and forgets lineoleum and diapers, and even the sun is in league with the newspapers at it sets in fiery crimson behind Soldiers Field: is there any choice...
...Bellevue-Stratford. The Prince was accordingly delayed in attending a banquet in his mother's honor. When he reached the banquet door it had been locked to keep out the curious and the guard professed to have no key. Prince Nicholas sought the main dining room, passed through the kitchen, emerged into the banquet hall...