Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunster House dining room underwent a 30-second blackout punctuated with cheers during supper last night in a birthday celebration for John M. Major, tutor in English. In the middle of the blackout a large cake appeared, lit by an undetermined number of candles...
Regarding California's old-age pensions, the frosting on the cake is a lot thicker than your article tells. Some time ago I listened to a county welfare official explain that the $3,500 in real property and the $1,500 in other assets over & above the car, furniture, jewelry, etc. refer to assessed value and are not even remotely connected with market value. I believe there are some counties in California where market values are as much as ten times the assessed values...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...
...Torments You?" Once the devil's hand was suspected, a group of ministers-in-conclave queried the girls: "Who torments you?" At first, they did not know. Only after a dish of "witch cake" (a blend of rye meal and the sufferers' urine baked in ashes) was fed to a dog, were their tongues loosened. Betty Parris named Tituba; the others also accused a village tramp and a matron who did not attend church regularly...
Invalided in a Melrose Park, Pa. convalescent home, Poet Edgar Lee (Spoon River Anthology) Masters reached 80, marked the occasion by having a cigar, ice cream, cake and a shot of bourbon...