Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty, olive-skinned Dorothy Holtz, 21, was a happy bride-to-be when she arrived at Vancouver Island late in August. From her home in Jamaica, she brought a tiered wedding cake and a long bridal gown. Her English fiance, John Michael Hewitt, 30, was a biology master at the exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys near Victoria. Hewitt, who formerly taught in Jamaica, had splurged his savings to furnish a cottage on the school grounds and buy a car. Dorothy had plans for a formal wedding, a big reception, and a happy life in the campus community...
...days the Hewitts were married, but it was all tragically unlike Dorothy's dreams. Two witnesses were the only guests. Alone in the cottage afterward, the couple nibbled at the big cake. Four days later, brokenhearted Dorothy packed her unworn wedding gown and other belongings and went back to Jamaica...
...pampered in the world. U.S. industry pays him the world's highest wage scales, then shells out another $25 billion a year (or about $1 for every $5 paid in payrolls) for such fringe benefits as pensions, paid vacations and welfare funds. But the real frosting on the cake is a vast assortment of "extras," and ranging all the way from equipment for lunch-hour ball games to employee country clubs and yacht clubs with company-owned fleets of yachts...
Mendès' plan was ingenious, but its core remained that the French would have their cake and eat it, too. France would accept no restrictions on its sovereignty, but German arms would be limited by treaty...
...pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators of Rummels' appliance store on Main Street. At mid-morning the ladies began carrying the food to a special luncheon tent, along with 60 fried chickens, cords of fresh sweet corn, and the 100-egg birthday cake baked by Mrs. Harold Heick...