Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite daytime costume is a gabardine suit, plaid socks and bow tie to match, saddle shoes, pork pie hat, but how does this enter? b, Yes, if they're pretty, the girls, we mean...
...supplement a Press conference, the President gave his annual Hyde Park picnic to correspondents. There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing. The feast included roast ham, salad, pie, coffee. On a little charcoal grill placed before him, the President prepared the picnic frankfurters...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...
...advent of Repeal a song title, told him to write a waltz to it. Metz went home, scratched out a tune on his violin. Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many a kindly listener preferred to like it because it was written by the old man who, nearly...
...Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...