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Word: cake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some girls shave their legs. Others melt down some candle wax, splash it on, let it cake, and chip if off, Saves blades, they explain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moors Gets A Close Shave As Flesh-Pot Bubbleth Over | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...home in Washington, old General Peyton C. March, bearded Army Chief of Staff in World War I, celebrated a happy birthday with his family, but said no thanks to an offer of a full-dressed cake: "A thing with 86 candles on it would have burned up the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...trying to rid L.S.U. of what he called its "candy and cake" atmosphere, President Stoke found himself bogged down in scores of minor squabbles. He had to worry about campus traffic regulations and cutting down the number and speed of student convertibles ("We must decide whether we want to be a university or a country club"). He fought with Athletic Director T. P. ("Red") Heard, who wanted to enlarge the football stadium, while Stoke aimed to put football in its place as "just another university activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Failure of a Mission | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider the best white jazz cornetist in the business,* grinned sheepishly. It had been just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two-Beat at Tiffany's | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...cake of dung. Is there a slut would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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