Word: caked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests ate at small tables in the garden, served from a huge buffet in the Map Room laden with odorous food. As they departed each received a small box of wedding cake...
Orator "Red" Robinson is slender and dapper. Dullards who judge by appearances alone might take him for a dancing man, a talkative "cake-eater."* Than which nothing could be more misguided. He is a state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many...
...Francisco paper suspended publication. The others dropped their Sunday editions. The Chicago Tribune, which succeeded in establishing the financially most successful tabloid in America, sneered: "It is evident that the secret of a newspaper cannot be found as in a recipe for a cake...
Naturally and not unreasonably, we want Harvard men to "have their cake and eat it too," to restore if possible the social wholesomeness of the smaller college, while accepting and enjoying the advantages of the greater. I believe that all Harvard graduates, and especially those who lived their college life under the old conditions, will regard such a combination of academic characteristics as highly desirable, and will agree that, if the example furnished by the collegiate units at Oxford and Cambridge is encouraging, it should be followed with such departures as differences between American and English environment render inevitable...
...newspaper category of master minds of the criminal world have been added more alluring terms. Recently, the press has christened a cake-eater bandit, a maniac murderer, and a radio burglar. In this manner is modern crime dally dramatized for the sake of sensation and presented to an eager public. The tendency is not new in journalism, but rarely before has it reached such artistic culmination. The confessions of "cake-eater" bandits do not usually find a place on the front page of The New York Times...