Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in radio's swaddling days (1923), the Procter & Gamble Co. stepped up to the microphone one day with a recipe for devil's-food cake ("take one-half cup of Crisco"). Enough housewives were glued to their earphones at that particular moment to report "program coming in fine." No one quite realized it, but commercial broadcasting was well under...
...Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring a replica of the Liberty Bell. In Manhattan, buyers were permitted to eat their way through a five-layer, six-foot-high cake, or take a trip through a model aircraft carrier...
...achievements in the war . . . have proved that there is within Communism a spiritual, as well as an economic power. ... If Russia . . . has succeeded in removing forever the idle men from the market place, then we should discover her secret. If she has established justice between man and man; given cake to none and bread to all ... then let us take off our hats...
...sleeps in an 8-by-6 bed and looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...
...Contest. In St. Louis, a contest to guess how long it would take a 300-pound cake of ice to melt ended suddenly when the cake slid off a platfjorm in a flower-shop window, crashed through a plate-glass window, smashed to smithereens on the sidewalk...