Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some guests stayed for coffee, chocolate, coconut layer cake. Eleanor Roosevelt lighted a fire in the library's huge marble fireplace...
...military wedding, with the arch of steel furnished by Ray Kallaus, Warren Sheard, Kenneth Mills, and Dick Sharrock. Best man was Tom B. Robinson, and master of ceremonies Frank Samone at the reception held at the Fox and Hounds Club afterwards. Using Lieutenant Towne's sword on the wedding cake, Mrs. Shepherd served a punch, described by our Harry Magnuson as a hybrid whisky sour and champagne cocktail. Only Tom (T. S.) Smith kept his head after some ten or so toasts. A gala affair. Much happiness to them...
...friends of Wendell Willkie were mostly of two kinds: those who were for him as second-best to Roosevelt, and those who worked with Willkie for his own election to the Presidency. Of the score of men beginning with Campaign Manager Ralph Cake who had done most work for and with Willkie in his 1944 campaign, only one, Albert D. Lasker, was last week in the Roosevelt camp. All the rest were working for Dewey. Senator Joe Ball (see below) had led the rival cam paign for Harold Stassen of Minnesota, whom Willkie disliked even more than...
...sent in a bar that would not float (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week the baffled research staff performed a thorough autopsy on the sullen bar, came up from its powdered remains still baffled but with a lathery explanation: "Floating soap floats because it has been whipped about like a cake batter. In storage, this particular bar might have been com pressed and its tiny air pockets crushed...
...Cake Crumbs from Childhood. Six of the nine short stories in The Leaning Tower are crumbs from this cake of childhood-gentle, affectionate epitaphs for a dead world, which read more like a continuous record of nostalgic memories than like separate short stories. They spring from the grass roots as clearly as their author does. Katherine Anne Porter has become one of the intelligentsia's most admired short-story writers. She has lived in most of the intelligentsia's favorite prewar haunts: Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna and Mexico. But she was born in Texas and schooled in Louisiana...