Word: caked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and onetime Governor General...
...involuntary merchandising venture with bleak prospects to a likely-looking investment with a return expected this year. Last week in celebration of the second anniversary of her entry into business, President Dominici was given a cocktail party, to which the press was invited to watch her cut a cake model of her store. On the confection roof was a decorative "2" to record not only President Dominici's tenure but also the fact that Bonwit Teller had doubled its business...
...materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...
From a small tug at Pequaming, Mich., stepped vacationing Henry Ford. Straightway he marched to a local dancing school, reeled & minueted with happy moppets for half an hour. For all Pequaming boys & girls he ordered ice cream & cake, chugged off again...
...size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed," the New Masses went on to report that "alongside the patented invention on True's desk lies a Colt revolver. True is a good shot. He practices by shooting at a cake of soap, because [he says] the consistency of soap approximates Jewish flesh." For all who care to join his September Jew shoot, True "promises he can obtain revolvers" from a Washington hardware firm at wholesale prices...