Word: caking
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...centuries went by. A Kingdom passed away, a Republic came, a great man reeled over Europe, a kingdom came again, and the inevitable Republic followed, a small man flickered on the continent, and then the Third Republic. Versailles saw queer days. Women shouting for bread and a Queen offering cake. The splendor tarnished in the shadows, and silence fell, unending silence, to be broken at last by a German voice and the voice of Empire. And again deep silence...
...fruit cake smells so good that the artist who sketched it had to have his hands slapped twice to keep him from nibbling...
...pieces of imported German Lebkuchen (that's cake, in case your education has been neglected) come in lovely decorated German tins...
...President with a book, containing signatures of the associates, tutors, and present residents of Lowell House. President Lowell accepted the gift with a few observations on the growth of the House plan idea into its present healthy condition. Accompanying the gift of the House came a huge birthday cake decorated with 75 candles, which was subsequently cut by the President and then passed to the various tables...
...Eyes on Russia, 32 selected pictures are accompanied by running comments from under the black cloth. Sprightly travelog, philosophy, technique, anecdotes focus the view through the ground glass. In front of Bourke-White's sympathetic but anastigmatic eye files the Five-Year cake-walk-agricultural, industrial, probably unworkable. The spirit of the proletariat was irresistible; but industrial idealism, sauced with scarce goods and inefficient service, she found hard to swallow whole. Living on cold canned beans, on "hard" trains that gave her few transports, she loved the Great Experiment with a grain of salt...