Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name is mentioned, but he should know better than to say that doughnuts are never served and that the "Harvard student usually starts (breakfast) with orange juice." In view of the recent bills of fare, we sense a bit of irony in the announcement that tomato juice and apple pie with ice cream are "in great demand." And the reason that students don't eat pancakes is because they don't want to wait to have them cooked...
...build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher birds will be hung along the segment walls in recesses so arranged that spectators...
...McGillicuddy, after the local semiprofessional team beat his Philadelphia Athletics 9-5 : "Nothing would please me better than to spend the rest of the summer here?the way my team is going." Said Actor Cohan: "To show I'm a typical New Englander I'm going to have apple pie for breakfast...
...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...
Harold McGugin in the meantime was too smart to remain unknown. In 1926 he was elected to the Kansas Legislature. He promptly proposed a law forbidding Kansans to eat mince pie. It was foolish but it made Kansans see the folly of their law against cigarets. Legislator McGugin made his political name by getting Kansas' anti-cigaret law repealed...