Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace of mind of men in every street in every capital of the world." The French greeted their guests with culinary reminders of what the man in the street was up against. The British delegates faced a dinner of cauliflower, spinach and ice cream. The Russians got beets, apple pie and coffee-a hotel menu to which the Soviet Embassy hastily added steak. The prudent Americans had wisely arranged for U.S. Army food...
...star singer was Velma Middleton, a 250-lb. lady named-by the Gagwriters Association-Miss Petite of 1946. She waddled through Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy and then did a split which almost literally brought down the house. But when Louis, grinning wickedly, pursed his gigantic lips against his trumpet to play / Can't Give You Anything but Love or Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, patient ears still heard the purest phrasing and most expert blowing around. There was no doubt about it-Louis ("Reverend Satchelmouth") Armstrong, after 30 years in the business, was still...
...whole program looked very much like the same pie from which William Benton's postwar information plan for the State Department was sliced (TIME, Jan. 28). Benton's proposals were far milder. Last week, news tycoons found the pie unpalatable. Publisher John S. Knight (Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald, etc.) called it "a hazard to free reporting," a long step toward a U.S. or U.N. dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think...
...established 1882) in Boston, things seldom change. The original Washington Street restaurant has never moved from its site in a dingy brick building opposite the equally venerable Boston Globe. Many a staid Bostonian (like onetime customer Calvin Coolidge) has eaten his fish chowder and apple pie a»; che same counter for 30 years, served every day by the same waitress...
...done with industry there would "still remain something like 80% and you can play around with that if you like." Now he roared that there was "no department of public activity, whether national or local, in which Labor hasn't got to have a finger in the pie." He thundered at .his hearers: "We must be in everything because we are the country...