Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterward Mrs. J. E. Pigott, wife of a Tylertown merchant, helped the Secretary to dinner. On his paper plate she heaped fried chicken, chicken pie, potato salad, warm spice cake, two kinds of pie. "This is a great idea," he beamed...
...first sight of the first baby brought loud awkward delight to many a young veteran like American Volunteer Group Flyer John Hennesy, who first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes...
...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
...climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk of pie...
...about 9:30 each morning, driving himself to work in his four-seater Ford (Priority No. 14). Nowadays, he has almost no club or social life. Often, he lunches on sandwiches in his headquarters office. "All tickety boo," he says when everything is as he likes it, in apple pie order...