Word: caking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benjamin Stoloff has worked hard to show what he could do with choruses, always a baffling problem in conventional-sized films: wavering ribbons of dancing girls issue from two huge shoes; there is a baby carriage big enough to hold a dozen squallers at a time, and a birthday cake that dwarfs the actors. The story involves short vaudeville acts by such stars as Ann Pennington, Tom Patricola, Warner Baxter, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Olsen, J. Harold Murray. They put on a benefit performance-no worse than most of the cinema minstrel shows released recently-this time arranged...
...Chicago, the W. C. T. U. cut a birthday cake with ten candles, sang their anthem, "It's in the Constitution and it's there, there to stay." Excerpt...
Bright by night is the.white dome of the U. S. Capitol, set like an enormous frosted wedding cake in the glare of encircling batteries of searchlights. Brighter than ever was the dome one evening hour last week when sharp flames leaped up through the Capitol roof...
Married. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler, motor maker; and Edgar William Garbisch, Manhattan cotton broker, onetime (1924) West Point & all-American footballer; in Manhattan. After the wedding, the Garbisches sat down to a 30-in. tall cake in smart Sherry's Restaurant with 1,000 guests including Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mr. & Mrs. John J. Raskob, President & Mrs. Alfred Pritchard Sloane of General Motors Corp...
...January 1918, Graves married Nancy Nicholson, daughter of Painter William Nicholson. The wedding-cake icing was of plaster, on account of the shortage of sugar. The War over, Captain Graves and his wife (who still called herself by her maiden name) lived first at Harlech; then on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, where they tried the disastrous experiment of keeping a shop; then at Islip, a village the other side of Oxford. Four children were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry...