Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always...
...fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting is his main exercise when he is not getting ready for a bout...
...America makes encyclopedic but entertaining reading. Like an encyclopedia or a deep-dish pie it may be dipped into for juicy bits or devoured from start to finish. Some of the juicy bits...
When I was able to make good pie, I was proud of it. When Mr. Malcomson organized the Ford Motor Co., he was proud of it! Were they not both worthwhile achievements...
...Malcomson all thanks for putting the record in apple-pie order...