Word: pied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the United States does not have such a bad time. In has a secretary to write his thanks for the gifts his loving constituents pour in upon him--the first jam from God's cranberry bog, wolf cubs, apple pie, sombreros. His parental cares are lightened by a secret service man who follows his undergraduate son from class to class and within the past few months the "official spokesman" has relieved the president of another responsibility. But he still has to shake hands, and he does it well. Last week he disposed of 1400 lady Republicans in forty...
...might be dismissed as a rara avis if it were not for the fact that the same law was recently brought up in a bill in Minnesota to introduce it there. The State of Nebraska considered the advisability of jailing "sheiks" and "vamps". Now a proposal to prohibit pie is before the legislature of Kansas...
...Gray put up $10,000 but "didn't think the stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment for a thousand times the amount of their original invest- ment...
...which means in that region the largest meal the home can afford. Their hospitality exceeded that of the most generous families in the South of the United States. In one Indian home in McPherson, a village in the Arctic Circle, Driscoll happened to mention his fondness for apple pie and that evening there were three freshly baked ones awaiting us before we left...
...American Gas Association, whose meeting at Atlantic City last week was in accidental coincidence with that of the dieticians, is interested in cooking. Delegates heard that pie and angel cake are the two most popular U. S. dishes. Boston baked beans and corn pone have yielded to delicacies. Missourians like Spanish dishes. In New York pie and cake are most popular, in New Jersey nothing in particular...