Word: caking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish for cat; gateau is French for cake...
...back to those zany rich-girl-marries-chauffeur comedies of the '30s for its plot. To give Ball new bounce, Director David Swift (The Parent Trap] has transferred the action to the Riviera, hustled in a bagful of props: a pink yacht with matching luggage, a custard-cake skyscraper for dessert, a floating baby grand for the pool. But to keep this kind of souffle inflated is primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities in her closet...
...Dean says of the Birthday Cake Agency, "It was his (Burke's) obligation to try... to hold and develop jobs for needy Harvard undergraduates." But the CRIMSON said that Mr. Burke had misrepresented decisions of the Committee on Solicitation, and I cannot think that that was part of his obligation...
...vicious slurs that Mr. Burke is a man "many will not trust" and a man who "has succumbed... to peculiar temptations," the CRIMSON cites three specific instances of alleged "indiscretions" in the management of the corporation: first, that there was administrative confusion when he tried to protect the birthday cake business in our dormitories as a business to support needy Harvard students and not outsiders; second, that he set up an Entertainment Agency in H.S.A. to promote job opportunities for student entertainers; and, finally, that H.S.A. has been subjected to legal action...
...several years now a group of students from another college have sought to cut in on the birthday cake business in the Harvard dormitories and Houses, calling themselves the "University Birthday Cake Agency." It was a part of Mr. Burke's job to try to keep this business for needy Harvard students. He may have been mistaken in seeking to preserve the business for Harvard by asking for a control on deliveries. But he was certainly not mistaken in his assumption that the College can control deliveries, as well as solicitation, if it wants to. The fact that deliveries...