Word: caking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday (Jan. 30) he cut a cake with 21 candles at the White House for a big party of family & friends including, as usual, members of the Cuff-Links Gang-eight men whose friendship dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's days as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and to whom he gave cufflinks in remembrance of their help in his unsuccessful campaign for Vice President...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...
...infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...
...year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...
...asked the bright young thing, "is President Lowell?" pointing on the picture of the boy cutting his birthday cake on page...