Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan. Competing stoutly against a bevy of capable housewives, Clifford Sterns, a young bachelor who drives a school bus for a living, won four blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist...
...German Reds were plugging if I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake-and explaining the lyrics to mean that the U.S. had resorted to food rationing...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...
...boss's daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), an amateur student of psychiatry. Krasna has fleshed out the farce idea with a curious subplot about the law firm's efforts to keep a Chinese-American tenant out of a "restricted" apartment building. The result makes an odd layer cake composed" of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible...
Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...