Word: pied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly." One of her concoctions she served recently to a group of W. C. T. U. members, who smackingly pronounced it "very tasty." Soon scores of thirsty but temperate Drys demanded her recipe. She gave it: "Take a pound of seedless grapes chopped very fine...
Last month, after a year's delay, the State Department acknowledged receipt of the note, stated that there was no need for comment at this time. Implication of the U. S. note was that there would be time enough for Antarctic pie-cutting after the Byrd explorations were completed...
...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
...TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...winter or the distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than representatives of all the big French exhibitors rushed to make new U. S. bookings, showed by enthusiastic comments that they are gladdest of all that Cineman Sapene got a pie-in-the-face...