Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...
...undergraduate groups, but it also grants the University a new power--the power to pick and choose from all groups those which are so good that their appearance would add more to the "good name" than their commercial sponsorship would detract from it. The Corporation already has its cake and eats it when the Harvard Band appears on football broadcasts for the greater glory of Harvard University and Atlantic Hi-Arc gasoline. A group which can get a commercial radio or TV sponsor generally has something more to offer than its Harvard name, a fact that has not always been...
After some complicated motions, which neither Liz nor I could follow, Al was able to put meat, potatoes, cabbage, and a budding chocolate cake in one contraption which rested on top of the stove's two front burners. Next he produced eight apples, a large aluminum cone which looked like an inverted dunce cap with holes drilled through it, and "The best applesauce you'd ever want to taste...
...portions were small and the potatoes had a graytinge. But the entire company began to nod and compliment the cook. When he produced the dessert, "my specialty," he had difficulty removing it from the pan. The cake was burnt and had stuck to the bottom...
...trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...