Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chattanooga Times spoke the concern of many a Southerner: "[Picky Pie] Hill was murdered, but it is the South which again was lynched in the unreasoning fury of a cowardly mob." There was some question whether it was actually the act of a mob (see above). But inevitably, the report of the year's first lynching* attracted wide attention in the nation's press, obscuring the slower, less spectacular but undeniable improvement in the Negro's lot in the South...
...Court. Only 25 miles from Picky Pie's murder, a federal grand jury last week indicted seven men for beating a Negro, and a deputy sheriff for letting them do it. Occasional cowardly attacks on Negroes still took place in the back country, but more & more such cases were winding up in the courts...
...from 6 to 10? an hour. But living, including laundry, meals and room rent ran to no more than $2 a week. The main dining room offered a varied bill of fare: meat cost 2? a serving, pie 2?, coffee ½? a cup. Clothing was made on the farm, and a system of old-age pensions and insurance...
...Angeles cops had to sweat to unravel traffic jams when two neighboring drugstores got involved in a furious price war. The store managers kept each other under surveillance with "price spies," set up sidewalk blackboards to notify street crowds of new price cuts, drew mobs of customers by selling pie a la mode for a penny, women's panties for 25?, steak dinners...
Last week, for the first time, Manhattan critics got to hear Koussy's wonder boy. For his Town Hall debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more...