Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several years ago I had a baby in Switzerland. It was Mother's Day. Each mother in the hospital had a special cake and there was a beautiful plant brought to each mother by the head gardener himself...
...film plots are pervaded by false appearances ... It is in false appearances that the forbidden wishes are realized ... In a false appearance the heroine is promiscuous, the hero is a murderer, the young couple carry on an illicit affair . . . This device makes it possible for us to eat our cake and have it, since we can enjoy the suggested wish-fulfillments without emphatic guilt . . . American films [contend] that we should not feel guilty for mere wishes...
...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
Merrill, who cannot read music and picks out his tune ideas on a toy xylophone, has another bestselling confection with practically the same ingredients, Candy and Cake. He hopes his most recent release, The Donut Song, will catch on before the public loses its stomach for pastry...
...Baked a cake, baked a cake, If I knew you were comin' I'd 've baked a cake...