The technique for making angel food cupcakes and chiffon cupcakes illustrates another type of mixing. Angel food cupcakes have no leavening and depend on well-beaten egg whites for their light texture. For chiffon cupcakes,[…]

We rented a line striper for the parking lot.

This is very interesting from an Anglophone viewpoint. There may well have been a book about it - I don't know; but there were definite stagey pronunciations of English around the turn of the 19-20C. This repertoire included a very unEnglish trilled r, which as late as the 1960s was mistakenly regarded as desirable in careful speech by a few people.

Laura didn't know what kind of alien that could support; the Commonwealth had never found any cryolife, and there were no electromagnetic signals or thermal emissions […]