Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armand Hoog, visiting lecturer on French literature complained that American women in general, and Radcliffe girls in particular, want "to have their cake, and eat it too." But most agree that they manage to do a very good job of it. As Cherington summed it up: "Radcliffe has extremely high intellectual standards, yet the girls have style and 'elan', and take their highly varied and extensive social life well in their stride." Compared with other women's colleges, he said, "It ranks with Bryn Mawr and Barnard as the three leading intellectual colleges, yet it does not have 'the supra...
Someone slipped a dozen eggs too many into that birthday cake of yours...
Opportunity Illuminated. Reinhold took his time. At Camp Grant, near Rockford, Ill., he stuffed himself with the astounding food (both cake and grapes at one meal), enrolled for correspondence courses in Russian and Persian, ingratiated himself with his captors, and peddled his medals and handmade souvenirs to accumulate a store of U.S. currency. He dyed a pair of khaki pants blue, and hid them...
...such a lapse can be pardoned in a young scholar; even Sellar & Yeatman, in 1066, failed to give sufficient attention to the tactics of Alfred the Cake at Bannockburn...
...learned politics with his table manners. By the time his father died, in 1925, and Young Bob succeeded to his Senate seat, he knew all the rules. Then at 30, he was the third youngest Senator in U.S. history.* He affected pearl grey spats, plastered-down hair and cake-eater sideburns. He was cherubic in countenance, shy and courteous in manner, and he lacked his father's oratorical fire and flourish. He was, his senatorial elders decided, a mere shadow of Fighting...