Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reed wanted to be among the college cake-eaters but could not resist showing that he knew bread was a better diet. By persistence and ability he became an ''activity man," made the Lampoon and the Monthly, was active in many a club...
...started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store in the U. S. He sent four salesmen to England at a time when virtually no one sent salesmen abroad. One of them was King C. Gillette, inventor of the safety razor. Two others are still on the company...
This, indeed, is perhaps not suggestive news, merely icing for a cake that is already in American possession. His reasons for this extraordinary interview are two. He has his hands full domestically and the time is soon approaching when Russia will need a few friends and neutrals...
...main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch Magnin will have a particularly happy birthday: in its 1935 annual report published last week, Magnin's showed sales of $8,900,000 and profits of $372,000-best year since...
...Chicago Municipal Court, Baker Charles Abrams sued Baker Fred Kapche for $30 for lessons in how to ice cakes, said he would drop the suit if he could not frost a cake twice as beautifully as Kapche. Kapche went to work with frosting tubes on a big cake. He painstakingly squeezed out four robins' nests, three blue eggs, seven pink sweet pea blossoms, two yellow marigolds and a "Happy Birthday...