Word: caked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, his mother, his sister and some 200 neighbors were on hand to watch Rush graduate into the Senate. Bespectacled, wirehaired, snaggletoothed, he eagerly posed in every position cameramen could suggest, beside his birthday cake, pointing to his birthday on the calendar, at the foot of the statue of Kentucky's Henry Clay who became a Senator at 29 because the Senate did not know...
...verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor...
...Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly...
Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally cut loose from him, tied up to the solider character of Frederick. The child of their marriage was born not only to comfort but security. From the triumphantly peaceful room where Francesca lies with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting...
...Midwest's dust storm silted over her house and her husband's 300-acre wheat farm, Mrs. James Leon Vance recalled the dozen goldfish she kept out in the watering trough. When she went to look at them, she found that dust had made a mud cake of the trough, buried the goldfish...