Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey, grizzled Board Chairman William H. Davis optimistically thought that the President had "clarified things to some extent." Said Davis: "In the past, when we said that if we increased wages the costs would go up, labor came back with the assertion that somebody was going to get the pie, and that it was going to be the boss. Now with the President's remarks on prices, we can say . . . that nobody is going to get any pie. . . . To increase the real wage level is now, I think, completely out of the question. . . . The cost of living has increased...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
...taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney pie. U.S. canned meats, though moderately plentiful, are unpopular because they require so many coupons...
Whether your tastes in comedy run to subtle wit or to custard-pie slapstick, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" is your meat. And since it's scheduled to run for a full week at the U.T., you'll have plenty of time to satisfy your appetite...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...