Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four years ago Author Homer AY. Smith transported to the U. S., after a Guggenheim-sponsored year in Africa, 28 lungfish (Protoplecus acthiapicus Heckel). Twenty-seven of them died. Fortnight ago the 28th had completed three and one-half years of estivation in its mud-pie in a laboratory at New York University Medical College...
...fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard pie...
...Humble pie is not included in the rations of a general officer of the U. S. Army, active or retired. No exception is tight-lipped Charles Pelot ("Fight 'Em All") Summerall, veteran of many an Army campaign since 1892, who retired last year as Chief of Staff to become president of the Citadel, South Carolina's State military college at Charleston...
...Vagabond turned hopefully toward the third, hitherto silent, member of the party. "I never have read the column." The Vagabond pushed away his plate of humble pie and departed, the world in ashes. The cruel words rang loudly in his old ears and when he thought thereon he wept...
...brand a minor for life as a thief for such an offense as abstracting a package of cigarets or taking a bottle of milk or a pie from the galley is scarcely a defensible stand to take...