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...this is no modern phenomenon. The term faux pas goes back at least as far as the 17th century, having originally referred to a woman's lapse from virtue. Not that women lapse more than men in this regard. Even Marie Antoinette's fatal remark about cake and the public, if true, was due to a poor translation...
...another laugh entirely, that neither condemns, praises, ridicules nor conspires, but sees into the essential nature of a slip of the tongue and consequently sympathizes. After all, most human endeavor results in a slip of the something-the best-laid plans gone suddenly haywire by natural blunder: the chair, cake or painting that turns out not exactly as one imagined; the kiss or party that falls flat; the life that is not quite what one had in mind. Nothing is ever as dreamed...
Kurt Kleindorst scored two third-period goals to pace Providence. The Friar sophomore's first goal broke a 2-2 deadlock at 4:31 and put Providence ahead to stay. Kleindorst's second goal of the game was icing on the cake after Mike Govin gave the Friars some breathing room...
...piece of cake...
...70th birthday. They sprang it in the Oval Office, just as Reagan was about to receive a bipartisan group of Congressmen. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Senator Paul Laxalt and Representatives Jim Wright and Robert Michel suddenly found themselves making their entrance with Nancy Reagan and a giant cake standing 8 ft. tall on its platform. "I'd like to light it," said Nancy, "but I can't reach the candle." Without stopping to think, Texan Wright leaned over and gave her a lift. When the President arrived, to strains of Happy Birthday to You in rare...