Word: caking
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...Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held out their plates for second helpings, Mrs. John Nance Garner piped, "I'd like some," got some. So did some of her neighbors, including Mrs. Cordell Hull and Mrs. Claude Augustus Swanson. The rest went on to cake...
Backstage in a Chicago theatre, Blue-singer Sophie Tucker, famed as "the last of the red hot mamas," munched a coffee cake and announced that at the age of 47 she had "adopted a grandma," one Blanche Roper, 74-year-old widow of Plainfield, Ill. Said Granddaughter Tucker: "Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have been adopting orphans. Well, I thought I'd go them one better...
...solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon. I'll be rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break into prayer. Kick me and I'll recite the Sermon on the Mount...
English plum pudding with hard or brandy sauce was next provided, and after it followed maraschino jelly, charlotte russe, French kisses, assorted cake, macaroons, Neapolitan ice cream, fruits, assorted nuts, raisins. Roquefort and Neufchatel cheese, and finally coffee...
Only hitch in the banquet came when Dr. Pease could find no match to light the candles on his cake. At length one guest proffered a cigaret lighter, explained that he used it only to light his way home on winter evenings. Gingerly the president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League took the instrument, lighted the candles. Purred he, "God bless...