Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Icing the Icing. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the African Daily News reported "a colorful wedding held in the Msana Reserve [that] ended with the bride delivering a baby boy soon after the cutting of the ceremonial cake...
During Dag Hammarskjold's swift peacemaking mission to the Middle East last week, somebody in Beirut, who knew he was coming, baked him a cake. Presented at the presidential palace, the cake bore these words: "United Nations Save Lebanon." Commented the world's No. 1 international civil servant: "Only the Lebanese can save Lebanon...
...hungry, a refreshment wagon will come to the dormitories Sunday through Thursday evening with milk, orange juice, doughnuts, and cake for sale...
Family gatherings are generally pretty uncomfortable at the Duvals'-the night of Pa's birthday, for instance. Ma bakes him a big cake with 45 candles and gets presents for all the kids to give him, but when Pa turns up he's in a bad mood, and grouches around and says to hurry up supper, he has to go out that night. At table he argues with the girl about her latest beau and gets into the usual back-and-forth with the oldest boy about the business. Finally, it all winds...
...Michigan's first lady, it seems, nothing is too good-or too big. In the limelight at a 43rd birthday party for Governor Gerhard Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' wife Nancy was a great big cake thoughtfully donated by a Lansing restaurateur, who happens to have the cafeteria concession in the new State Office Building. Modeled after the State Capitol, the 48-layer, 4½-ft-tall goody measured 22 ft. in perimeter, weighed 650 Ibs., required 500 eggs, 90 Ibs. of butter, 120 Ibs. of sugar, was hauled to Detroit by truck in six sections. Sharing the buttercream mess...