Word: caked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calvin Coolidge: "In Washington, the crew of the Presidential yacht Mayflower were enrolled for membership in the Red Cross. In making receipts it developed that the name of the ship's cook was A. Cake...
...clean and well-bred. Poor Tamea! Even though she was Pritchard's ward, she could not quite click in society?and knew it. So, after bearing a child to Pritchard that he never knew about, she died gracefully of consumption, a la Camille?and left Pritchard to eat his cake and have it too by marrying Maisie, one surmises...
...genuinely American comedy, pleasantly salted with irony, developing the thesis that you can't have your artistic cake and eat it too, with a cast as beautifully balanced as the old Athletics' infield...
...first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!" This is the impression which Mr. Bradford sets out to give of these seven?as he admits?"paley damaged" and very miscellaneous souls. He makes no attempt to acquit them of their faults, but by showing the light in which they saw themselves, the damage seems more the result of circumstance than of intent...
Herman H. Kohlsaat, author of From McKinley to Harding: " I spent my 70th birthday at the Biltmore, Manhattan, receiving the congratulations of old friends. The New York Times gave a luncheon in my honor and presented me with a birthday cake with 70 candles...