Word: caking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs, canaries, parrots, and a saddle horse (Chancellor Hitler does not ride). Most appealing was a box of pretzel mice from the children of Hameln, labeled YOU ARE NOW OUR PIED PIPER. In the city twelve Nazi standard bearers tramped with flags flying to the high altar...
...Look at that!" cheerily exclaimed President Roosevelt as he joined the White House birthday party of Granddaughter Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall and beheld her huge six-candled cake. He started the party of youngsters off by helping them pull their colored snappers, adjust their paper caps. C. At a press conference last week President Roosevelt outlined his plans for establishing an "extraordinary budget" to cover emergency expenditures for relief, public works, mortgage refinancing. By this method of bookkeeping which many a critic condemns as concealing the true state of Federal finances, the President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget...
Five small whalers turned to the rescue. After a cold night of bobbing on the cake of ice, the explorers radioed the rescuing boats not to run any risks in the pack ice. The rescuers were to send up rockets and smoke signals. Another night passed without sign of rescue...
...Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last bow in 1908, standing between Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Tenor Enrico Caruso...
Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: "Why don't they eat cake?" Her brief (298-page) biography is a partisan but appealing argument in favor of Marie Antoinette's humanity...