Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of concentration should also involve care; every possibility, from Art to Zoology, deserves at least to be thought about. If a little sensible consideration is given to these matters by each individual student, a genuine "liberal education" may yet become as commonplace as baked beans or apple-pie...
...C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis is less famed for personal piety. Last week the Ohio Pastors' Convention, meeting in Columbus, where the United Mine Workers were also gathered (see p. 19), sent Mr. Lewis its felicitations and an invitation to come talk. Mr. Lewis went. In no pie-in-the-sky mood, he voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...