Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opener of his own invention. Lehmann's ways are unpretentious. She keeps no maid, answers her own telephone, does her own mending. Five years ago she was definitely large. Now 20 Ib. thinner, she watches her diet, never orders dessert although she nibbles a bit at the apple pie which Herr Krause invariably chooses...
...painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...
Well primed with pumpkin pie and Pilgrim punch at a party given by sardonic John C. Wiley, charge d'affaires of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow last week, the New York Times correspondent cabled: "Russians raise pumpkins only as feed for pigs and consider it shameful for human beings to eat them...
...heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor to be invited to share it. Keystone Comedies gave the U. S. three standard favorites: the chase (most Sennett pictures ended in one), the custard pie, the bathing beauty...
...concede him Los Angeles and the Southern part of the State, look to hard-headed San Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against Upton Sinclair is that he is "an agent of Moscow." Fact is, Upton Sinclair is as American as pumpkin pie. His great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair was a naval officer who fought in the war with Tripoli. Seven other seagoing relatives joined the Confederate Navy. His maternal grandfather, John S. Harden, was Secretary & Treasurer of Western Maryland Railroad. A sister of Upton's mother married John R. Bland, founder...