Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news dispatch which solemnly described a scene in a bakery. This time, the overdressed woman said: "I hope the war lasts a while longer so we can pay off our mortgage." Said a patriotic woman bystander to the clerk: "Forget the cake. Give me a lemon-meringue pie and don't wrap it." Then...
Stars & Stripes' G.I. readers in Occupied Germany were entranced by the picture of the loudmouthed woman with a face full of meringue. Last week, 64 of them asked New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Lewis Gannett to find the St. Joseph pie-wielder, tell her to get on with her good work. They collected $7.50 to buy bigger and squashier lemon pies...
Whether you laugh at any of it depends on what kind of comedy you like. Olsen and Johnson present the corniest and slapstickiest line of gage since the pie-throwing twenties...
...political sense guards him against assuming any more sophisticated manner. On his campaign train he joined newsmen at poker almost every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...
...House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease bill in 20 minutes, then filled in the details in two and a half hours. Last week Cox said the President's letter will become the guiding policy of postwar foreign trade for the U.S. The policy: whenever necessary...