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...nuts and pickles, and if guests drop in uninvited, a huge copper tray is quickly produced, burdened with half a dozen hot roast chickens. Next to the table, within reach of the eager, is a showcase with sliding plate-glass doors, its shelves always crammed with pies, Spanish coffee cake, bowls of apples baked in sirup, stewed peaches, fresh figs and pineapples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...most important point of victory in Greece was to give the mouth-watering dictators another little slice off the enemy's cake. Gradually the Axis was consolidating the Mediterranean as it had already consolidated Europe. With Britain out of the Mediterranean, the Axis would be much harder to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Episode in Epirus | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...land is untenable, and there must be some sort of a move. The promised land is an Ivy League with real teeth, including at least eight colleges dedicated to the principle that bigtime football is not a contradiction in terms. In other words, they hope to have their cake...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Grid Dilemma May Be Solved By Forming of New Ivy League | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

Manhattan's first new daily in 15 years, afternoon tabloid PM, was one month last week, and its Publisher Ralph Ingersoll celebrated at the Ho Plaza over a tabloid birthday cake a tabloid candle. After PM's one-shakedown cruise, both Publisher and the press in general had a idea of what his paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Experiment in Progress | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Gertrude Stein's book has good pictures, peaceful and exciting pictures. There is one of Sacre Coeur and the hill of Montmartre painted gaily like a cake with a frilled yellowish cloud up on top, by Lascaux. There are other pictures, one of them is an 18th-Century script drawing of Voltaire one is by Picasso one is by Sir Francis Rose. The Germans are in Paris but would they paint pictures like these and would they like Gertrude Stein's writing about Paris and the French. Would they yes would they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nice Old Gertrude Stein | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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