Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest reception of the twelve Roosevelt years in the White House, but it was also spare. The President had wanted chicken á la king. But he was overruled by the housekeeper, who settled for chicken salad. The rest of the lunch: hard rolls without butter, unfrosted pound cake, coffee...
...half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture on the future of Atlanta's housing industry...
Half the dorm stood spellhound staring bleakly as the spirit, of Christmas himself, Larry Jaffa (English run cake and all that) skipped merrily, through Mellon C and D. Ray Wible took one look and put in an emergency call to report the situation to the B.D.O. Dressed in a Lilli Dache model bandana, white gloves, and red stockings, Larry succeeded in throwing the holiday spirit and the disbursement assignment into high gear in short order...
...climbed on the back of our Trojan buddie Randolph "Pits" Phillips, editorially speaking, but he really isn't the soap-shirker we make him out to be. Oh, did you hear how the Count de Wright got pigeoned into going down for cakes? Oh, well, you can't have your own cake...
...Army's Stars & Stripes picked up a news dispatch which solemnly described a scene in a bakery. This time, the overdressed woman said: "I hope the war lasts a while longer so we can pay off our mortgage." Said a patriotic woman bystander to the clerk: "Forget the cake. Give me a lemon-meringue pie and don't wrap it." Then...