Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by British author William Somerset Maugham. It is a thinly veiled roman à clef satirizing contemporary novelists Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole. See also: 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for novel with a key) is a novel describing real-life events behind a façade of fiction. ... Photograph of Hardy Thomas Masterson Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist and poet, generally regarded as one of the greatest figures in English literature. ... Sir Hugh Walpole, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941) was an English novelist. ...
Student sitting for exam requests cakes and ale under a centuries-old university regulation.
The item the student is allowed to request varies (e.g., glass of port, cakes and ale, a pint, glass of wine).
The "cakes and ale" legend has been circulating since at least the mid-1950s (when it was printed in Reader's Digest, and attributed to The Lancet, as quoted by United Press International) and is probably much older than that.
There are numberless cakes, however, that are always identified with their place of origin, and our tea-table could be well spread.
Then we could add those cubical chunks of plain gingerbread or treacle cake, which are still called Chester cakes ; and there could be Parleys, or Parliament cakes, a kind of gingerbread or ginger biscuit baked in long rectangles with scolloped edges, and of which children have always been very fond.
One of the oldest sweetmeats in England is that known as a Porrifret cake, first made and still prepared at Pontefract from the locally grown liquorice plant-a large-sized fl lozenge, well known to all children in that particular district.
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