Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Virginia Fields, this pie boasts a plot that is serewy with a left hand thread. Goddard is a stranded gal who works in a shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot...
...noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...Likes mashed potatoes, dislikes Army fried potatoes (35% uneaten). > Likes fruit and gelatin desserts better than pie...
...what seemed a very long time. Then one of them spoke . . . and for a second I thought he was changing the subject or making fun of me, but ... he was answering my question very specifically. He whispered: 'Jesus, what I'd give for a piece of blueberry pie.' . . . Here pie was their symbol of home...
Snakes of God. Outside of medicine, Episcopalian Dr. Kelly was such a bluenose that some thought him against "practically everything that is any fun." He opposed liquor, smoking, and drama which emphasized sex, violence or pie-throwing (pie-throwing gave children the wrong notion of humor). He would not hear of prophylactic stations to prevent venereal disease because it was the business of the churches to prevent exposure. He helped to have Baltimore brothels closed. He considered birth control a "certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent...