Word: caking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Justice of another kind quickly overtook the Vichy regime. Switzerland withdrew recognition of the Vichy Government, prepared to recognize the Government of General Charles de Gaulle. The Vatican ceased to recognize Vichy. Sweden and Turkey bowed out. Spain and Portugal raced for the privilege of dropping the hot cake, ended in a dead heat of disclaimers against Vichy's further right to diplomatic recognition...
...possibly could. Like many another Naval officer, he came back from his year in the South Pacific with a hunger for familiar voices, for the sight of his wife and his father and mother and for the taste of things like farm-fresh milk and home-baked cake. He spent hours discussing a doll house with his two-year-old daughter Kathleen-she had learned to talk while he was away. When he went to Washington, D.C. last week, it was on Navy business. He parried political questions. Strict observance of Naval regulations forbade his admitting any interest...
...Treatment consisted in giving a diet with a high protein content: liver, meat, fish and soya-bean derivates. We gave rice polishings in the form of a cake made with flour and a little baking powder and fried in peanut oil. These were very popular, especially with the children. Vitamins were given. [Some made] a rapid, uncomplicated recovery; in [others] progress was slow . . . with disappointing relapses and a tendency to die suddenly and unexpectedly...
...Approved a new 15-man Republican National Committee. Included: Willkie's ex-campaign manager, Ralph H. Cake, Willkieite Senator Weeks, and John Bricker's convention manager...
Considering his position and public interest therein, Fala can hardly be held accountable for his birthday goings-on. Moreover, he did not eat the cake: after sticking his paws in it and taking a couple of bites, Fala was hustled off by a stern Secret Service man to his kitchen bone...