Word: caked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same time. Lima, founded on the Epiphany and shaped like a king cake. The not quite homicidal climate of the Canal Zone...
...bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls...
...breadbasket when a 1? and 2? increase was indicated. North Dakota bakers set the minimum price for a "standard" loaf of bread at 12?, a 1? rise. In Rome and Syracuse, N. Y. a 1-lb. loaf of bread rose 1?. "You can't have your cake and eat it," observed President Henry Stude of the American Bakers Association, denying the 3? bread price upping in Iowa which horrified Secretary Wallace week before (TIME. July...
...entered St. Peter's, dark, obscure. Then suddenly the 50,000 watchers beheld the entire dome, the roofs, the porches and balustrades of St, Peter's burst into flames of thousands of flaring torches. The crowd cheered, while the basilica blazed like a vast birthday cake. As they went back home, in trams and through dark streets, there was much talk of the sanpietrini, those nimble workers of St. Peter's who had scurried about the dome and roof on skillfully manipulated ropes, fixing and lighting the torches...
Denver's Champa Street shrilled one day last week with the din of hundreds of urchins pushing their way to the front of the Denver Post building. At the head of the line each youngster was given two ice cream cones, a handful of cakes, a hearty invitation to come up the line again for more. This was the Post's Annual Free Ice Cream & Cake Party for Denver's children. The Post that day front-paged hot weather reports from other parts of the U. S. under the big, black headline: COLORADO IS COOLER. ... It announced...