Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron...
...whispers that an old, established widow in town never quite bothered to marry the man whose money she is now living off. And there is a great image of repressed sexual yearning in the school mistress who, ever mindful of war shortages, has the cook bake only one chocolate cake a week, which she single-handedly eats in seclusion...
...mainly interested in the individuals," Kelley says. "I tried to think of them as people first then as athletes. When Kelley played his 500th game in 1972, all of Boston College celebrated with him. A 400-Ib cake was wheeled onto the ice and sliced up for the spectators, and B.C. President Father W. Seavey Joyce S.J. declared a holiday and closed the school on the following...
...There will be a wreath-laying ceremony at Roosevelt's birthplace in Hyde Park, and a birthday cake will be served where he died, in Warm Springs, Ga., the mineral-water health resort that he regularly visited for treatment of his physical afflictions...
...lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...