Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...
...There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair of skis and is very funny just doing that; in another she serves as a bean-bag for a couple of South American caballeros...
...invitation to conversation. It was, however, an indication of a very sunny disposition. She can read a lengthy stretch of medieval constitutional law (lapsing occasionally into Latin and Anglo-Saxon) with all the gusto and delight of Mary Margaret McBridge revealing a new recipe for banana cream pie...
...year. The Magazine of Wall Street called it one of the five most depression-proof stocks in the U.S. Then William Childs (Sam had died in 1925) turned faddist, and tried to turn Childs's customers into vegetarians. No more sausages with griddle cakes; no more rhubarb pie (someone had told him rhubarb was poisonous). Customers stayed away in droves, and the depression left Childs stranded with high-priced real estate and leases signed at boom-time rentals...
...distribution of these meals is an annual service, but this is the first year the families were able to select the kind of food that was delivered. The packages contained the traditional plum pudding and pumpkin pie as the trimmings for the turkey meal in addition to the specific requests of the families George Lee '51 headed the committee, which included David Ashendon and George Chases, both...