Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Governor of the idyllic Fiji Isles from 1912 until 1918 was Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott. "Toward the end of 1914," said he in England last fortnight, "I received a message that Von Spee's squadron was heading toward the Fijis and was only a day's voyage away...
...sweet lady, do you say you will promise to obey? Love your husband, honor him, for his sake risk life and limb? Never look at other men, pledge yourself to him; and then, faithful for the rest of life, be his gentle loving wife...
...four great sugar bowls of the world are the U. S., Cuba, Java, Europe. Last week representatives of these bowls were striving to halt the great stream of production which has filled their bowls to overflowing, has taken sweet profit out of the industry...
...more previously unexplored miles of the Orinoco River. He had stories to tell of unusually small ducks, jet black parrots, red morning glories as big as saucers. Dr. Dickey called upon the Guaharibos Indians who, someone had told him, were white and mean. Instead he found them yellow and sweet-tempered. They wear no clothes, live in the Stone Age manner. Dr. Dickey had taken harmonicas with him for gifts, discovered they needed agricultural implements more. While the rest of the party went farther up the river, Mrs. Dickey, who accompanies her husband, stayed on shore with the Guaharibos...