Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was Dr. Eduard Benes, "Smartest Little Statesman in Europe," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Benes had said, "Bombardment from the air is barbarous and inhuman." Sir John Simon pointed out that British planes often find it necessary to bomb rebellious tribesmen. Dr. Benes promptly ate humble pie, exclaiming, "Of course British flyers have never been guilty of barbarous actions...
...with alarm that A. & P. is introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will be handled. The price will be 20¢ a pint against a current competitive price of around 30?...
...estate of about $225,000 to the National Academy of Design for the purpose of buying paintings of living U. S. artists (or those not twelve months cold) and presenting them to U. S. museums. Last week the Academy's committee handed out 13 slices of Ranger pie to eager museums all over the country, as follows...
...with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below. Though lonely and cold the life was Eskimo Pie...
...with the public. Commercial artists joined the Fakirs to try their hand at burlesque and swell the scholarship fund. Since the National Academy makes a great to-do over donating its prizes, Patron Sam Shaw used to give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper way to run a costume ball. There...