Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents trumped up a story that the King had asked his eldest son not to dance the rhumba or carioca at the State Ball this week in Buckingham Palace. On the program, however, were only polkas, waltzes and fox trots, including Sweetie Pie, I'm on a See-Saw, and An Old Lullaby, rendered from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. by the Royal Artillery Band...
...making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo Pie Corp. President...
...trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening to campaign against Senator Robinson's re-election in 1936, Huey Long declared: "I am going to Arkansas next year and I am going to ask for some of that pie." The "Kingfish" also raked from the past an incident which the Senator from Arkansas would much rather have forgotten: his assault on a golfer at the Chevy Chase (Md.) Club in 1924. "The Senator suggested that General Johnson and I have a fist fight," drawled the "Kingfish." "That is bad advice...
...sooner was that settled than the pie problem raised its ugly head in the House Restaurant. Each sliver (and it was charged that they were not regulation size) cost fifteen cents. Members protested that this was plutocratic and unjustifiable. With this demand went one for a deduction in the price of coffee from ten cents to five...
...days of Jeffersonian simplicity have vanished from Washington. It is now a de luxe city and the de luxe spirit has prevailed with especial verve during the last two years. Life should be lived there with a fine gusto and grand disregard. Why haggle over the price of pie when money is such a trifling matter? Congressmen should learn to relax as the rest of us have. They should have another cup of coffee and another piece of pie and remember that only a Conservative would think in terms of nickels...