Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communities would celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present -a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift of the committee's chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar...
...full directions for making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece. The Roosevelt Inaugural Cake weighed 110 Ib. and was the product of Mme Blanche (Blanche LeRallec), famed cake baker to all U. S. Presidents since the first Roosevelt. A crustularian purist. Mme Blanche disdains such devices as building her mammoth cakes around steel or wooden scaffolding. She has built self-supporting cakes weighing over...
...would be very nice to be Vice President of Yale; I am willing to accept the Vice Presidency of any place," said Victor Moore, "Alexander Throttlebottom," of "Of Thee I Sing," and "Let 'Em Eat Cake," when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "I'd like any job in that line, it's easy work, and you have...
Dorothy Pilluck licked "a cake of soap until her mouth and lips were swollen...
...study anything from basket-weaving to playwriting. Most cottagers, who return year after year, are elderly. Men have a Horseshoe Club, women a Bird & Tree Club headed by Founder Miller's daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Each day begins with community prayer. Chief social events are ice-cream-&-cake festivals. A ban on smoking has been lifted lately. Younger Chautauquans may boat, play golf or tennis, swim every day but Sunday. Revolt in Milwaukee...