Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nursery, two small Marryots, Edward and Joe, are feebly pretending to be asleep. A year later, Robert Marryot and Bridges are back from the Boer War. The children, gobbling cake, watch Queen Victoria's funeral from a balcony. By 1908, Bridges and his wife have acquired a pub. Butler Bridges has taken to drinking up the profits and his small daughter Fanny is dancing in the streets. In 1912, Edward Marryot and the daughter of his mother's oldest friend are honeymooning, on the Titanic. In 1914, Joe Marryot is just old enough to get into...
...vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked...
...that Harvard would beat Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following: "So you and your father know everything? Well, what...
Well I don't see where your staff of intelligent editors have any liscense to knock an organization of the American Legion's worthy cause. Answer me through the columns of the press. How many of you cake eaters have ever shouldered a rifle or ever will be of any benefit to the government? The only education that the colleges give a man today after he goes out into the world to make a living is a fair knowledge of jerking sodas at the large sum of $12 per week providing he be an exceptional good mechanic. If you bunch...
...tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails...