Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period, the Food Minister murmured: "We haven't done too badly by Gladstone-we've named a useful piece of luggage for him. Nellie Melba gets her eternity in a pleasant peach concoction." Then he added: "But me-they will remember me, if at all, for a pie made of the humblest vegetables...
They are adequately fed on plain food. They do not care for corn ("Corn is for pigs") and turn up their noses at pumpkin pie...
...what date U.S. citizens set off firecrackers, Auburn ventured: "I should say that would be on this day when all the children come 'round and turn out your dustbins." Cracked Fay: "Rubbish." Brogan knew it was the Fourth of July; the British team also knew that cherry pie was eaten on George Washington's birthday, that trees were planted on Arbor...
...head of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, he spent $2 million (salary: $10,000). As WPAdministrator he disposed of $9½ billion (salary: $8,500). Now as head of the Munitions Assignments Board, he often has the final say on cutting up the tremendous pie of U.S. munitions. Salary...
...Gloomy Dean, Britain's Very Rev. W. R. Inge, stepped out of retirement to write a cherrily gloomy piece for London's Evening Standard. His theme: the "Passing of the Country House," that spacious, gracious institution as British as the Marble Arch, mutton pie, or Boxing Day. Wrote Dean Inge...