Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apple pie was a favorite New England dinner dessert two hundred years ago. The antiquity or the apple pie tradition has been confirmed by the discovery of the only known volume of the so-called "buttery books," consisting of the records of the college butler, from 1722 to 1751, in the Harvard University archives in the College library. This unique collection of "buttery" accounts has been selected for possible display in connection with Harvard's Tercentenary celebration next September...
...quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
...division of time, gave radio men a great pain. Pundit Walter Lippmann came to their defense, declaring, "Even if [broadcasting companies] are just they will not seem to be just. They will be accused of being unjust. They will never convince every one that they are just. The pie is too small and the boys are too hungry...
...intended to retire when she was 45, that she is now 48, but that she stayed on to help the Opera through its financial crisis. As a director on the board and a member of the new management committee she will continue to have a finger in the operatic pie...
Breakfast: fruit, one egg, two strips of bacon, half a slice of bread, coffee with cream & sugar. Lunch: fruit, vegetable salad, one slice of bread with butter, cake or a half portion of pie, coffee with cream but no sugar. Dinner: meat, two vegetables, one quarter of a potato, coffee with cream & sugar, cake or fruit. Rose walked for an hour and a half every day and once a week Dr. Schuman massaged her in "places where she needed to lose." Warning that the diet varied from day to day and might be harmful to anyone else, Dr. Schuman emphasized...