Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington newshawks, case-hardened characters who measure a public man by the probable length of his obituary, last week sentimentally chipped in $7, bought a seven-pound, four-layer White Mountain cake topped with white, pink and green icing, with 21 large pink candles rakishly atilt in pink rosebud holders...
...sugar-rationed England Princess Margaret Rose, who turned eleven, was presented with a birthday cake with no icing. ∙ ∙ Eleanor Roosevelt turned up at East Otis, Mass, wearing cotton stockings. ∙ ∙ Caddies at a Bar Harbor club went on strike, and Edsel Ford had to lug his own golf bag around the course. ∙ ∙ Madeleine Carroll asked the U.S. Government to hand back $9,092.55 in income taxes, claiming 51 little French refugees as dependents...
...keep ahead of her only serious rival, The Grade Teacher (circ. 120,000), Editor Owen constantly trots around to schools, conferences, teachers' conventions. At the National Education Association convention in Boston last month, Miss Owen armed herself with a cake knife and a huge cake celebrating the Instructor's soth birthday, passed out slices...
...view of the capacity crowd expected, both dining rooms, the rotunda, and the Lower Common Room will be thrown open to the dancing couples. As an improvement over earlier Jubilees a printed program is offered. A midnight supper with hamburgers, ice cream, and cake will supersede the evening's punch bowl at 12:30 o'clock...
...swore to be true, that he had written in his book. The author: "Jan Valtin," whose autobiographical Out of the Night is the life and hard times of an ex-Communist spy who fell into the hands of the Gestapo. It is the season's literary hot cake...