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...freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through his life, while she, admittedly without a heart, breaks the heart of every...
...after a tumultuous storm in the Senate, the veto was overridden (see The Congress). Despite a year of dodging, the Truman Administration had a new labor law in its unwilling hands. Even that looked as if it might be a good political break to Truman Democrats. They had their cake and they could eat it, too. They were freed from responsibility. It was on the Republicans; if the law brought on labor strife, or failed to curb it, it would be the G.O.P.'s doing...
Eddie Cantor upheld his reputation as the most publicized paterfamilias in show business by posing with wife Ida and a cake on their 33rd anniversary...
Even the food (provided by London's Childs-like Lyons restaurants) was a surprise. "Somebody passed me a plate," said pretty, petite Denise afterward, "with the words, 'You can eat this, my dear, it's real cake.' " A U.S. newsman who tasted King George's tea, however, "was compelled to report regretfully that...
Typically, Jinnah wanted to eat the cake of Moslem separatism, and have the cake of Hindu manpower. Pakistan, said his mouthpiece Dawn, should have all troops now stationed in the northern and eastern commands (most of the troops, including Hindus and Sikhs, are in those areas). Even a division along communal lines, which Jinnah might consistently have asked for, would wreck the Army at a crucial time when Britons are pulling out, leaving many half-trained reserves in lower echelons, a drastic shortage of officers...