Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FOREIGN NEWS), a quieter celebration went on last week in a modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...
Outside his big Dutch Colonial house, a brass band serenaded him with Hail to the Chief, a number usually reserved for the President. Friends and ward heelers greeted him deliriously. Jim viewed with emotion a big white cake with red letters that spelled out: "Happy Birthday to Our Beloved Boss." The boss had already celebrated the occasion in jail...
...Ingredients for a wedding cake from the Girl Guides of Australia...
...Titan (1914). Like all Dreiser's novels, it is much chewed but badly digested: the product of his slow brooding on the injustices of life, clotted with unassimilated gobbets of ideas and massive lumps of earnest social purpose. The Stoic is as dated as a three-day-old cake...
Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials...