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Burke made this statement in explanation of a note added to an advertisement of the HSA Birthday Cake Agency which stated that any competing organization was operating in violation of University policy and would not be allowed to deliver cakes...
...lifted off, climbed gradually to 33,000 ft., leveled. A pink-cheeked'stewardess, her nose peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban...
Radcliffe apartment dwellers even find domestic chores, within limits, fun--especially when it comes to preparing a dinner party. And cake baking, although not so good, perhaps, as Humphrey Bogart flics, has turned out to be wonderful for exam period procrastination...
...Victorian mansion that has been used by California Governors over the past 60 years looks something like a three-tiered wedding cake. But most of its tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...King. Liberty was not won by a conscious effort; it was the product of evolutionary growth. "Men went into Parliament 'to make a figure,' " writes Namier, "and no more dreamt of a seat in the House to benefit humanity than a child dreams of a birthday cake that others may eat it; which is perfectly normal and in no way reprehensible...