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...Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy'') Le Hand, and wearing a necklace of tiger's claws, the President's wife went successively from the Raleigh to the Willard, to the Washington, to the Mayflower, to the Wardman Park, to the Shoreham Hotel where she cut a great cake into pieces flung as largesse to the crowd...
...Miss Corona showed herself at the Waldorf in a shining little shift and neat metallic girdle, while before her paraded still more socialites as the great love-women of history. Finally in marched 54 debutantes, each bearing a giant candle, 18 maids of honor, a giant birthday cake borne by four chefs, and Oscar of the Waldorf. Franklin Roosevelt was much pleased, for the four balls which he attended by proxy were but samples of many others. They varied in size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall...
...call. Last week Mrs. Fisher had a birthday. Present at a reception in Brother Lawrence's house, largest of the seven large Fisher houses, were three Fisher sisters, 60 Fisher relatives, 90 other guests. In the pillared ballroom. Mother Fisher beamed upon a six-tiered. pink-&-white birthday cake topped with 79 candles. California's white-haired Representative John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of his State and Congressional marshal of the Townsend Plan, lost his $100 overcoat in the House cloakroom. Cried...
...kitchen itself one corner is devoted to pastry, with a large electric dough mixer and a row of enormous cans on casters labelled "Bread Flour," "Cake Flour," "Whole Wheat Flour." Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver...
Breakfast: fruit, one egg, two strips of bacon, half a slice of bread, coffee with cream & sugar. Lunch: fruit, vegetable salad, one slice of bread with butter, cake or a half portion of pie, coffee with cream but no sugar. Dinner: meat, two vegetables, one quarter of a potato, coffee with cream & sugar, cake or fruit. Rose walked for an hour and a half every day and once a week Dr. Schuman massaged her in "places where she needed to lose." Warning that the diet varied from day to day and might be harmful to anyone else, Dr. Schuman emphasized...