Word: pie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor...
...Gleam. In Chicago, President John Holmes of Swift & Co. promised that the postwar world would have an eskimo pie with a shatterproof coat...
Three Men had bypassed their future. Benito Mussolini was the Man of the Year-of a special sort. He had contributed heavily toward the sanity of the world; the bullying menace that ended with pie all over his face. What had entered the stage so pompously, dressed to "live like a lion," now fell through the trapdoor in truest slapstick fashion. For a while, the trains had arrived on time, and then the plane came almost too late...
...Mince Pie Chocolate Nut Cake
Soon the Ponsonby finger was in every royal pie. But the bulk of his day was filled with the endless routine of court problems, royal disapproval and viewing-with-alarm. "The Queen would be grateful," he wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written...