Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma," "Pee-Wee's Place" and the "Echo Pie Emporium" strutted blackamoors with "High Agnes" haircuts, trailed by admiring country cousins. Dicing, dancing and cutting went on hour after hour until the sun once more lit up the tall towers and gleamed on the broad river at Memphis. Thus ended, after 120 hours, the big annual bust...
...wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered regulation police van or pie wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, winning at the same time his greatest source of income, a toll on Mohammedan pilgrims...
...years ago Domnhall the Seanascal endeared himself to the Dublin masses by refusing to send King George for Christmas the traditional pastry of "four and twenty woodcocks baked in a pie,'' for generations the annual gift of Irish viceroys. Dublin instantly rang with a new version of the old song...
...When the pie was opened The birds began to sing: Three cheers for Donal Buckley NO PASTRY FOR THE KING...
Moments in this red-lettered farmers' calendar escape the curious uncertainty which characterizes most of Hollywood's conscientious efforts to investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route...