Word: pies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission of Eskimo Pie Corp. securities to trading on the New York Curb Market last week marked another incident in the life of a Scandinavian immigrant. The trivial business that Christian K. Nelson and Russell Stover began at Omaha, Neb., half a dozen years ago was now a $25,000,000 corporation...
...brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that he could make the confection. He invented the name Eskimo Pie...
...that he has confessed so much, the Vagabond may confess something more. He is not going to the lecture this morning because he particularly wants to have described to him the finger which Palmerston had in the Near Eastern pie; he is going to hear Professor Webster. This gentleman is an exchange professor from the University of Liverpool with a passion for a fresh air and a subtle English humor which would enliven any subject that needed resuscitation and make supremely interesting one that is already alive...
Grizzled old warrior that he undoubtedly is, Senator Beaver has been almost equalled in zeal by some of his contemporaries. In Kansas there is a proposed law against mince pie, and in Oregon a move has been made against posters showing "handsome, attractive young men engaged in smoking", and thus tempting the youth of the state to do likewise...
When the people are aroused to these evils--it is only a question of education--and the bills are passed, the new laws will be found hard to enforce. Mince pie, in Kansas as elsewhere, is often so disguised as to make detection difficult. In Oregon, the law could be easily rendered impotent in its intended purpose by showing cigarette posters of attractive young girls in the act of smoking. But the biscuit squad of Oklahoma will have the hardest task. Armed with tape-lines, they must enter every kitchen in the state and make sure that no "society biscuits...