Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
Still Up. From all the parks, many of the squares, some of the streets and rivers of the London area fat gentlemen named Goring, Tommy Farr, Lord Castlerosse, Puddin' Pie, Beefeater and many hundreds of others were still flying on wire leashes last week. The balloon barrage had proved its mettle. Not intended to bring planes down, but to worry them, to keep them up high enough for anti-aircraft fire and too high for accurate bombing, the balloons have won German respect to the extent that whole squadrons concentrate on shooting them down, and Berlin itself has begun...
Drain Pipes, Pie Plates. Next night, in the stadium of St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., officers of both armies sat down to hear Hugh Drum. Most glaring deficiency of the maneuvers the First Army commander passed over in one sentence. The point was too well known, even to the watching farmers, to be labored : the U. S. Army was grotesquely short of combat equipment. In both Black and Blue armies there were only four tanks. Like the Germans seven years ago, company commanders whitewashed the sign "TANK" on the sides of trucks, and the umpires counted them...
...were no modern anti-tank guns. Soldiers made them from drain pipes, old wheels, set them up on fields and roads and solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented...
...early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...