Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pie à la Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
...then to Francis Biddle. Then he was an assistant general counsel in 0PM (later WPB), and finally assistant to Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson in OES. By that time (1942), "Prich" had roly-polyed his way around Washington until he had a chubby finger in everybody's pie...
Auto Suggestion. In Manhattan, three well-worn police patrol wagons - known in the trade as "pie wagons" - were sold for pie wagons...
...spectacle of American pie throwing, egg smashing slapstick filled his hungry body with loathing. On the street, he found the "drunk, amorous" American tourist "strutting haughtily" with the "insufferable arrogance [of] a master race." "This we can never forgive or forget...
...last week Clarence Howe, who has worked long & hard as wartime Munitions Minister, squeezed in a round of golf at the Lambton Golf & Country Club (near Toronto). He dropped his indifferent golfing before the 18th hole, headed for the locker room, showered, then went to the club tavern for pie and coffee. Before he finished, six men barged...