Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that when the Westcotts of their day decreed "no more Hasty Pudding," a new age of dessert-making talent would be forthcoming. But as yet the ice cream is still the height of Harvard gastronomic art, and the acme of Pastry from the Square to the Charles is apple-pie a la mode. The Dining Hall Dieticians feel they gave their all in the making of steamed chocolate pudding, foamy sauce (bread run through the steam tunnels, we suppose), up-side down pudding, etc., and that the untutored undergraduates merely prefer ice-cream. We editors like ice-cream, in moderate...
...save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
...sever, there is, as usual, a powerful economic stimulus to that prejudice. The privilege of selling to the Balkan States, old and new, is extremely valuable; and France and Italy, while rivals themselves, are as one in their determination to keep Germany's fingers as far from the pie as possible. If the Anachluss were to go through German capitalists would not only secure the Austrian market but a pivotal position in Central Europe from which to conclude commercial as well as military agreements with surrounding countries. In the small nations in question, where the dividing line between economic...
...know one woman who is not an intellectual, likes the funnies in the newspapers, bakes a perfectly wonderful apple pie (which is justly the envy of all her friends), takes good care of and is deeply interested in her two children, prepares good meals for her family, plays the piano a little, fusses a lot with her clothes, is always late for appointments, is not at all hard to look at, likes the sweet tenors on the radio, plays a little contract, likes the movies and sentimental poetry and has just received a license to punish the family...
...Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz ate no pie, won the high jump next day with a new intercollegiate record of 6 ft. 6| in. ¶ For the last three years. Fordham's Joe McCluskey...