Word: caking
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Dramatis Personae: Viscount Brentford (carrying a cake of soap), the Bishop of Durham, Lords Ponsonby, Hailsham, Newton...
...This cake of soap is morally unclean!" (displaying it). ''Such cakes are selling in London today 1½ each?a price which British producers find utterly impossible to meet. They are made in Russia," (pause) "under conditions which violate the standards of the world! . . . The appalling conditions of slave labor there, . . . the horrors perpetrated there, are greater than any known in modern times...
...amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries had not made money in its first twelvemonth...
...great-great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams. She danced the first dance with Host Allan in the same East Room where her great-great-great-grandmother Abigail used to dry the family wash. As a mark of favor at supper she was served the first slice of cake from a cake plate used in the White House by the Adamses. "Home, Sweet Home'' came...
...children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table was placed on the laboratory lawn, held on it a white cake with nine candles and nine big red apples. While the children sang "Happy Birthday to You" and shouted "Many happy returns," Doc Dobbin bobbed his head, ate all the apples, gobbled the whole cake in three Gargantuan bites...