Word: caking
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...before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games he was always the scorekeeper...
...Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
...course there has to be a woman, and there is, both beautiful and blond, but always hopelessly helpless. When Lon Chaney isn't lurking behind one door for a little game of patty-cake with the young lady, Bela Lugosi is blood-letting in her closet...
...officer and technician needs of an 8,000,000-man army, the War Department has forgotten that the choice need not be between complete destruction of liberal education and an incomplete war effort. It is not a case of one or the other, but one and the other; the cake must be sacrificed, but we can have our bread...
Finally the baker's masterpiece was cut, with soldiers yelling: "Give me a piece, Eleanor!" For cake-eating accompaniment Charlie and Bergen quipped over Charlie's lunch that day at the White House...