Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this distinguished journal, there appears in the June Number an article entitled "President Lowell and his Influence." Its author is a Harvard man, F. P. Keppel but not one of that large portion of graduates who have at least a little finger in a little portion of the administrational pie. He writes calmly and with an open mind, covering firstly President Lowell himself, then his theories, his accomplishments, and his mistakes. It is evident that the calm method, combined with that strong admiration which most people feel in the presence of President Lowell's works, is sufficient to cover...
...there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted a 30-day stay of sale, stepped down from the block as the crowd cheered. Then up stepped Preacher Flint and cried to the farmers: "Most preachers teach us we shall eat pie by and by in the sky but here's a preacher who thinks we should have the pie...
...wrong and what's right. When asked about something to cat, They will answer with voices so sweet: (Chorus) You will cat bye and bye In that glorious land above, the sky. ('Way up high.) Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when...
...neither political tract nor visionary romance; it is a department store homily in which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward he is Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family...
...Faust" he forgets that the play is a thing of beauty and a living comment on life; in studying the calculus he overlooks that mathematics is a method of expressing the truth, as capable of interpreting the science of physiology as of indicating the proper way to cut a pie. The cramped outlook is a general and common failing, equally characteristic of the student of the arts who protests at a laboratory requirement, and of the scientifically minded whose dreams are of stewing alembics and spectroscopes...