Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
...most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates ever won more than a couple of dollars. The Denver police never bothered Soapy, but competitors sometimes...
Aside from a family dinner last night, where he cut the first slice of his birthday cake, Mr. Kittredge passed the day with no especial break in his routine. As is his custom, he refused to give any interviews to the press. During the afternoon, several of his close friends called at his home, 8 Hilliard Street, to pay their respects...
...White House birthday party began with a clam cocktail, ended with a modest fruit cake with 21 candles. "In our family," grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, "they never go beyond 21." With only a few of the family present-Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger- President Franklin D. Roosevelt thus unostentatiously observed the end of his 53rd year of life. But out in the night over every horizon, wherever the U. S. flag flew, 4,000,000 of the President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls...
After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...