Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposite the Kremlin, on the northeast side of Red Square, there stands a strange old building, sometimes plastered with the likenesses of Lenin and Stalin. The outside of the building is like a wedding cake, but within, there are so many modern corridors and pillared halls that the casual visitor might wonder whether to say a prayer or catch a train...
...London, Buckingham Palace was romantically aflutter over the marriage of Robina MacDonald, 37, personal maid to Princess Margaret, and Norman Gordon, 32, onetime footman to Queen Elizabeth, now a post-office telephonist. Queen Mother Elizabeth personally supervised the baking of the wedding cake...
...ubiquitous King Paul and Queen Frederika turned up in Hollywood, where they dropped in on the White Christmas set at Paramount. Stars Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney greeted Their Majesties with a little ceremony in which they puffed out the candles on a large, dummy birthday cake. Amused but confused, the King observed: "It's not my birthday...
...recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told us he eats only one meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple pun, described the event: "The well-bread Ritz Hotel . . . was decked out like a wedding cake . . . Pillsbury spared no expense to see that there were flours on every table, whether they kneaded them...
...white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black. Brown skin was a satisfactory compromise . . . The best-looking girls in the village were those whose mothers had consorted with white men . . . One was known throughout the island-as the crystal sugar cake...