Word: pied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else. He even told a story that apparently has only just reached Massachusetts, but is old in Alaska and the Philippines, about the rabbit pie. The man admitted that he put some horse meat in the rabbit pie, and said it was 'fifty-fifty'-one rabbit to one horse. The President assured Magnus Johnson that he would have a fifty-fifty chance at Washington, 'even if I have to be the rabbit...
...NERVOUS WRECK?The custard pie comedy of the current play bill. Funniest farce in five years...
...tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger in the pie...
Messrs. H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (editors of Smart Set) have long offered a custard pie (size 3½ by 4¾, actually baked and delivered) as prize for each month's most reprehensibly absurd statement in public print...
...conceivable that the October pie will go to Judge, moribund comic weekly...