Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this pretty pie Hillsborough's tax collector thereupon thrust his thumb, but his chances of pulling out a plum were rather iffy. Mrs. Cromwell can protest the assessment. Most likely grounds: that she is a resident of Honolulu, not Hillsborough...
...apparent that Bummy's reformation had gone too far. He lumbered around on his pianolike legs, used his fists like a slightly angry Lord Chesterfield. Cool and calculating Zivic, instead of knocking him out, jabbed at the doughboy's face until it looked like a gooey cherry pie. By the tenth round Davis was a helpless mess, bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth. Referee Arthur Donovan mercifully stepped in, awarded a technical knockout to Champion Zivic...
Calories and Figures. Most healthy adults keep the same weight year after year, whether they live on salads or steak and apple pie. The body adjusts its processes automatically to conform to the amount of food taken in. A heavy meal does not ordinarily lay down an extra pound or two, because a large quantity of food stimulates metabolism...
...gilded age, Tuxedo Park was the haven of Manhattan blue bloods to whom wealth was secondary to family and good behavior. Bad behavior was left to the swells-the glamor boys & girls of the day, who wrapped favors in $100 bills, cheered when naked ladies popped out of pies, and swarmed to James Hazen Hyde's notorious $200,000 party at Sherry's. Host Hyde, dogged by unfavorable publicity, fled to Europe, where he lived for 35 years. At Tuxedo Park no lady ever popped out of a pie...
...last week London's Anglo-American society, The Pilgrims, sat eating Lord Woolton pie, a pottage of vegetables named for the Food Minister. They stopped clattering their forks as the red-coated toastmaster called for order and gave the floor to Winston Churchill...