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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Principality of Liechtenstein, 65 square miles of territorial pie wedged between Austria and Switzerland, is ruled by 84-year-old Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein. Last week Prince Franz must have been personally alarmed by the nearby appetite of Nazi Germany-for his wealthy Viennese wife, former Baroness Gutmann, is of Jewish descent, and much of his property is in Austria. But for his country he professed unconcern, announcing: "We have no fear regarding foreign intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Harvard, long the seat of COMMUNIST teaching, has its finger in this new pie. It allegedly humorous magazine has devised an insidious process of MANUFACTURING Orientals by feeding them bum rum. Experimenting on themselves, the periodical's staff are now in Stillman, YELLOW AS BANANAS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YELLOW PERIL | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...procedure in employe relations the report was pretty smart, too. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers are currently organizing Johns-Manville plants, and Mr. Brown may hope his workers may be soothed by a pie-chart of Johns-Manville income, showing that they get the biggest piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Simplicity for Employes | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...doing my Minsky on the beach one day," said Miss Wing, "when Mack Sennett saw me and put me in his comedies with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields. No, I never got hit in the face with a pie; I was mostly the girl who sat on the beach and got insulted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Impartial Toward College Boys; Toby Wing Picks Harvard Men | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

With its widely-heralded spelling contest a flop, the Lampoon editors retired into the inner depths of their pie-shaped building last night after a humiliating 23-2 defeat at the hands of the Wellesley newspaperwomen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY WOMEN WHIP LAMPOON'S LOGY LOUTS | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

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