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...Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
...connoiseurs in this country are competent to declare on the authenticity of certain potteries which bear the signature of the great Kenzan, who dashed a playful brush over so many tea bowls and cake dishes and who lacquered and painted and carved in wood. It has proved distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some...
...certain of the Democratic nomination to be President of the U. S., Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York became 54 years old and, with family & friends about him, stood up at his dinner table to carve a 100-lb., electric-lighted replica of the White House, fashioned in cake for the occasion by Ryoochi Hida, his chef...
...late George Hearst of California (U. S. Senator 1886-91), who once said: "I don't understand my boy Bill. . . but there's one thing I have noticed about him. When he wants cake he wants it and he wants it now." William Randolph Hearst got into the House of Representatives for two terms (1903-07). His effort to be Democratic nominee for President in 1904 fell flat despite his reputed expenditure...
Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...