Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus the Nominee attended an Ohio State-Pitt football game, munched popcorn, hot dogs and pumpkin pie, was quoted as remarking: "There is nothing I enjoy more in football than light, fast backs...
Aside from the battleground of the Middle West, New York State with its forty-seven votes is the most luscious plum in the electoral pie, and Governor Lehman's record is one which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...
...cold wintry morning pretty, ineffectual Marcia Ward opened her door to a pale, grey-eyed peddler who promptly took charge of the household. Beginning by baking a pie despite Marcia's protests, the peddler, whose name was Hannah Parmalee and who was obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front...
...Before a judge in Bromley County Court, well-to-do Pie Manufacturer Arthur Kempton explained a device he had secretly installed under the drivers' seats of his pie trucks to record how often the drivers jumped up and down to sell pies. A pie salesman who objected to sitting over this device while on his rounds had removed it, suffered discharge by Mr. Kempton, and was suing for wages thus lost...
Handing down a decision in favor of the pie-selling driver, His Honor Judge Edwin Max Konstam vigorously cried: "I know of nothing more shameful or un-English than to conceal such a device as this so-called 'testing clock' secretly in a van with a view to catching the driver loafing! It is perfectly legitimate to have an unconcealed clock device so installed as to record what the men are doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this...