Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Sr., Col. & Mrs. Edward Mandell House were also on hand to wish the smiling dowager happy birthday. The President presented her with a fur motor robe, proposed a toast and was given the first frosty wedge cut by his mother from her double-decker cake...
...Reader Riley's undocumented challenge, TIME pits the word of Uneeda Bakers, Ward Baking Co., Cushman Bakers, Doughnut Machine Corp. and the Salvation Army that doughnuts have holes. Doughnuts made by Ward for the New England trade have smaller holes, but distinctly holes. In some communities, e.g. Cleveland, cakes-with-hole may be called either doughnuts or crullers. Practically everywhere the twisted, sausage-like cake is called a cruller, is never called a doughnut...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets for the London production of Waltzes from Vienna. He also did the sets for Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's new cinema, Crime Without Passion...
...White House and As Thousands Cheer, starring Marilyn Miller (later, Dorothy Stone) and Clifton Webb, had Broadway by the ears. In one of this revue's most popular skits Clifton Webb appears as John D. Rockefeller Sr. while his children and grandchildren dance about him offering him a birthday cake and Rockefeller Center as a birthday present. They sing...