Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reporter's Publisher W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson. Natty, collie-eyed Billy has had plenty of experience with divorce settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose for news. She has established herself as the mother confessor for Cinemaland, but it is other people's sins the penitents usually confess. Edith's column is the Reporter's biggest selling point...
...called after William A. Spooner, (1844-1930), onetime Warden of New College, Oxford, who is credited with scores of mixed-up quotations (mostly legendary), including the granddaddy of all Spoonerisms: "Mardon me, padam, but I think you are occupewing my pie...
...taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building on the campus...
Like the H.A.A., Olympic games do not run on athletes alone. They require the services of a number of executives and also a considerable amount of cash. Harvard has its fingers in the pie on both of these counts. In 1936 William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A., held what is probably the second biggest executive job in the Games, chairman of the track and field committee. This year Bingham is on the Olympic executive committee, the group which makes the American policy for the Games...