Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had slowly accumulated things rather than a museum. A Manet hangs by a Sargent; in the Chinese Loggia there is an early French French statute of a Madonna and Child; in the Raphael room, a bronze Roman bowl stands next to a Botticelli; and eighteenth century French bread cake lies near a magnificent self-portrait by Rembrandt; near several Whistler pastel is a collection of lace in a cabine which hides a hot air vent, in the Veronese room. "It is truly a human museum," says Carter...
...shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion is seen as an essential tool in the hard work of sheer survival, not as a matter of icing on the cake...
...Young retired to his farm near Peoli, Ohio. For a short, sad period in the 19303, he hit the road again with a team of baseball has-beens, playing the tank towns for coffee and cake. It was a losing effort from the start. In 1937, he was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. After that Cyclone Young was content-and he was really retired...
...Curiouser and curiouserl" cried Alice, when, after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...
...give up the privileges, duties or emoluments of the royal life. What has given her pause over the past weeks and kept a nation and a world on tenterhooks awaiting her decision is the Princess' sudden, clear awareness of the fact that she cannot have her royal cake...