Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME (April 17) you published a picture of Fala and his birthday cake. The White House must have a surplus of ration points to be able to bake a cake for a dog. . . . Surely, Fala could have celebrated his birthday with a larger portion of regular dog food...
...Just Asked Me to Dance." Brown-eyed Constance Clement, a onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
...soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
...best-known U.S. dog had a birthday last week. Franklin Roosevelt's Fala, his eyes hidden under a mass of black hair, received photographers on the south lawn of the White House, sniffed nonchalantly at cake with white and lavender frosting and four candles. For supper he had an extra bone...
Last week the diminutive, old-man-like boy was exhibited at a St. Louis symposium on degenerative diseases. Paul showed no fear or shyness, because he knows the doctors well. Newspapermen took Paul's picture, were surprised to learn that he likes toys, wants a big cake on his birthday in the middle of April...