Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth, Drake, and a handful of courtiers. Says Elizabeth at the end of the show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours, our friends...
...high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin' Pie...
Gift to Vienna. To replace Gauleiter Bürckel in Vienna, where a section of the famed Ringstrasse was last week renamed "Josef Bürckel Ring," Hitler selected a particularly luscious cherry from his political pie-poetic, youth-loving Baldur von Schirach, who last September publicly begged his Führer's permission to leave his job as Reich Youth Leader to help blitzkrieg France, returned last month with an Iron Cross and lieutenancy...
Italy's plan to join her eastern and north central holdings in Africa at Britain's expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall...
...muscles, loose from age like worn-out elastic bands, he takes a tuck with absorbable catgut. No tissue is cut away. Then Dr. Shorell redrapes the skin over the tightened muscles, snips away the loose skin around the borders in much the way a cook trims a pie...