Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room was a four-layer cake (the bottom two layers were wood). Freeman announced that "to keep things simple and avoid any resemblance to her last marriage-on the Riviera," no champagne would be served. But one indignant reporter pointed out that "we weren't on the Riviera," so Freeman agreeably changed the pitch. "You want champagne," said he. "O.K., champagne." During a fast and heady wedding luncheon, reporters toasted Rita and Dick. Then the happy but weary couple made for Rita's apartment on the hotel grounds, followed by an entourage of newsmen and hotel employees...
When Christmastime came, the monastery hummed with activity. Each monk was hard at work preparing a present for the Virgin. The cook baked an enormous many-tiered cake called "The Church Triumphant," the poet composed a miles-long Latin poem, Brother Arnaud presented Mary with the smallest illuminated Bible ever made, and Brother Thomas made an ivory carving of the Christ child that was so huge that a man had to stand away off to see it all. Juggler Cantalbert did not know what...
...every morning in his 15-room grey stucco house in Cincinnati, McElroy breakfasts on whatever suits his fancy, e.g., bacon & eggs one day, chocolate cake the next ("I figure eating cake in the morning doesn't hurt the waistline"). He is at work before 9-but not always in his office. He spends much of his time seeing the company's big team of "bright young men" and visiting his 35 U.S. plants. One of the most public-spirited businessmen in the U.S., McElroy devotes up to a third of his time to such functions as Community Chest...
...price field, a housewife's loyalty is ephemeral. Just when she is reaching for a cake of Ivory, her eye may be caught by a competing brand with a premium of a tube of toothpaste thrown in, or new promises of health and happiness. The selling lures must be constantly changed. For years, contests were P. & G.'s most successful promotions: it has given away well over $1,000,000 in cash and prizes, including some 300 autos, and a handful of life annuities of $1,000 to $1,200 a year. Right...
This Is the Army? In Fort Sill, Okla., Army Captain James C. Blackford began a new morale program: to each man in his company on his birthday-a cake, a three-day pass and a personal letter of greeting...