Word: caking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic figures of the capitalistic system...
...Philadelphia one day last week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled...
Married. Grace Green Roosevelt. 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (see p. 51), eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. Baltimore architect and sportsman; in Oyster Bay. L. I. The wedding cake was constructed by famed Mme Blanche (TIME. Jan. 8).'The 2.000-odd guests included Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and some 15 other Roosevelts...
...Minneapolis' Municipal Auditorium appeared freckle-faced, earnest Actress Eva Le Gallienne to auction off four cakes at a Roosevelt birthday ball. Briskly she banged a gavel, exhorted 4,000 shuffling, indifferent dancers through a microphone: "These cakes represent something! They represent the struggle of a man to overcome a tremendous physical handicap. ... I wasn't born in America, but I'll buy that cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while...
...Chief social events are not ice-cream-and-cake festivals...