Word: caked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with his cake and a group of fellow musicians that included Conductor André Kostelanetz...
Your kids'll love the brightly-rendered numbers. They'll lap up the showy costumes, the stoogery, and the cake and cookies at intermission. You'll go for the minor liberties they've taken with the score--"a linnngering death: boiling oil or.... New Haven"--revel in its recollection of your own high school Nanki-Poo, and purr contentedly that the whole thing is confederate with your old, scratchy D'Oyly Carte recording...
...Pierce had drifted into oblivion and the nomination went to Buchanan, a Pennsylvania bachelor who turned out to be not much of an improvement. But he did start his presidency with a proper celebration at which were consumed 400 gallons of oysters, 60 saddles of mutton, 125 tongues, a cake four feet high and $3,000 worth of wine...
Still, signs of inner strain were there: the chain-smoking, the use of drugs to get going in the morning and to stop at night, the increasingly heavy drinking. His remarkable face became a relief map of a ravaged land; Auden said he looked "like a wedding cake left out in the rain." Osborne does not flinch from presenting such evidence, but neither does he seem to know what to do with it: "On the Atlantic crossing back to England, he was uncharacteristically miserable, and on one occasion burst into tears, confessing to Isherwood that he could never find anyone...
...clock running past the 5-minute-to-go mark, Hollingsworth bulled to the two. And just seconds later, the Harvard sideline exploded as St. John rolled right on a keeper and stretched his body out just past the goaline for what was the icing on Harvard upset-flavored cake. Cody's kick was blocked but the Crimson still held a 15 point advantage, 22-7, with...