Word: rims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cake on which she occasionally likes to nibble. Like the Gothic cathedral builders, Mme Blanche believes in symbolism in her designs. The base of the Inaugural Cake was of lady's cake, a Georgia recipe in honor of President Roosevelt's interest in Warm Springs. Around its rim were miniatures of every President from Washington to Hoover garlanded in gold laurel leaves. The secret of a Mme Blanche cake lies in its seven-step method of icing, of which the five central processes are a sturdy secret...
...steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific laboratory and the conditioning gymnasium of sturdy young Father Ber- nard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., "the Glacier Priest," head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa...
...tropics rum hour is 6 p. m. Then the seamen hear the quartermaster pipe, "Up spirits!" Down in the mess the caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight rum. First class petty officers get half rum, half water. Chief petty officers and warrant officers get straight rum. In the great 19th Century days...
...defense based its case on a single vital point: that Mrs. Lamson's death could have been caused by an accidental fall. Two doctors, one of whom was Blake Wilbur, testified that the wounds on her head might have resulted from a blow against the bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been...
...last month Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, energetic chairman of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony, seeking an added attraction for the Lewisohn Stadium concerts, telephoned for advice to Hall Johnson, Negro composer and choir master. Cautiously he mentioned the Bahama Negro dancers who appeared in his folk play Rim, Little Chillum! (TIME, March 13). Enthusiastic, Mrs. Guggenheimer suggested that they present a joint program with Tamiris, a wiry New York white girl with a growing reputation for dances based on Negroid themes. As a result, for two nights last week Conductor Hans Lange led the Philharmonic-Symphony through the dusky music...