Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship's deck is a hinged periscope which will yield if struck by a cake of ice. Close by is a flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
Dramatis Personae: Viscount Brentford (carrying a cake of soap), the Bishop of Durham, Lords Ponsonby, Hailsham, Newton...
...This cake of soap is morally unclean!" (displaying it). ''Such cakes are selling in London today 1½ each?a price which British producers find utterly impossible to meet. They are made in Russia," (pause) "under conditions which violate the standards of the world! . . . The appalling conditions of slave labor there, . . . the horrors perpetrated there, are greater than any known in modern times...
...amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries had not made money in its first twelvemonth...
...great-great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams. She danced the first dance with Host Allan in the same East Room where her great-great-great-grandmother Abigail used to dry the family wash. As a mark of favor at supper she was served the first slice of cake from a cake plate used in the White House by the Adamses. "Home, Sweet Home'' came...