Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...
...Cream Pie. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. William Rogers smacked her lips over the pie her husband had baked, stopped abruptly when she learned what he had used for shortening: cold cream...
...weary-except when it is time to go to bed, and not always then. . . . We no more "beam" at the Royal Family than you at the President. None of us has heard of squirrel pie-and as for eating...
...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
...that Paris invented a word for it, Greenawisme. Chintz curtains were printed with Greenaway's interpretations of the seasons (a blizzard for January, flowers for June). Greenaway's grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public Library...