Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing eleven holes of dufferish golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced him. She shoots in the low 80s.) At dinner there was a cake, which they ate on the porch (see cut) surrounded by Sunday newspapers...
...MINISTRY OF FEAR - Graham Greene - Viking ($2.50). A tall, stooping, lean man with a sharp narrow face, a twisted nose and a sensitive mouth, won a cake at an English fair and found him self in a maze of fifth columnists - the cake, intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait...
...Statistical School has one candio on its birthday cake, celebrating its first year of existence. Last June Captain Lyman L. Woodman, now attached to Roston Civilian Schools Area, came to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to assume the duties of Adjutant of the Stat School. He was soon forward by major John F. Hetlin, who took over the duties as Commanding Officer. First Sergeant Roy L. Webb was also one of the first members of the School...
...Goetz's chemical kit, size of a cake of soap, weighs less than half a pound, will treat enough salt water to make two quarts of drinkable water - enough to last a careful man a week. The chemicals (secret) are simply mixed with sea water in any available container - a bucket, a boot or a helmet. When the muddy material settles, the clear liquid is treated with a second chemical swished around in a cloth like a tea bag, poured off, drunk...
...that the ball must be hit within his reach.) Birthday dinner guests were Marion Davies, four Hearst sons and their wives, a handful of Hearst publishers, Movie Columnist Louella Parsons, ex-Georgian Prince David Mdivani, Film Actor Arthur (Dogwood Bumstead) Lake, several others. They nibbled a red and white cake (16 candles...