Word: pied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surtaxes beginning at 1% at $10,000 and proceeding to 40% at $500,000 and more. These rates were very close to the Longworth rates (House, Republican) and the decision was largely a formal one in order to give the Democrats credit for a finger in the pie...
...like our own, where competition presses in every field except the purely imaginative (or purely imitative, as it often turns out) compels the reformer to labor under difficulties. The literary journal appears to be poaching or attempting to coerce unwilling attention if it thrusts its finger into the general pie. Tradition is against it, and it is likely to lose credit for the good it may actually accomplish. Yet to coerce unwilling attention may be the part of honest service, and the original tradition, in the case of the Advocate, is richly on the side of reform and ardent, crusading...
...Miss Mary Pierrepont scored the greatest number of points (19). But my young son, Randolph A. Hearst was second (14½). Other participants were Miss Ella Pillsbury, Miss Beatrice Breese, Master Charles Pillsbury, Master Jack Pierrepont. Said my New York American: 'Not the least interesting event was the pie-eating contest, which was won by Randolph A. Hearst, with Miss Beatrice Breese second and Jack Pierrepont third...
...first Law School in the world. Suddenly, we find ourselves participating in--the same old dispute that rages now over Freshman Dormitory Commons. But our Freshmen today have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Showing the influence of custard pie movies on the stage. Furiously funny farce about convalescence by necessity...