Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...
...Baltimore was printed a report that he had sailed for Florida on the Merchants & Miners liner Dorchester. The New York Sun said he had been smuggled in a pie wagon to West New York. N. J. Florida's Governor Doyle Carlton heard he was en route to Florida, ordered all state sheriffs to arrest him on sight. Dry agents raided the Capone estate at Palm Island, off Miami, arrested six men but not its absent owner. In Chicago Detective Chief John Stege announced Capone was flying to his Prairie Avenue home...
...Spraggs, Pa., last week, a doughty company of huntsmen sat down to a dinner of chicken pie. It was the banquet tendered by the losers to the winners of one of Greene County's immemorial varmint-hunts. Useful, unique, the latest Greene County hunt was last week described by one who knows Greene County (John H. Day of the Washington, Pa., Observer) as follows...
...days when the saloon exerted its much deplored influence on the home, women were prominent in reform, Now when the dramatic evidence is on the other side of the question, women are no less eager to have a finger in the controversial pie. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, stated last Wednesday that in her opinion a poll such as conducted by Yale's "Daily News" would find a similar hostility to Prohibition in any girls' college in the country. Mrs. Sabin seems to suggest that either the young women of America...
...Flemington, N. J., Ann Wilson Stout ate a piece of pumpkin pie for breakfast on her 101st birthday. Said she: "I missed my regular morning onion...