Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...
...Robin Hood Fallacy. How to get away from this situation, which might be called the Robin Hood fallacy? K. & A.'s solution does not lie in cutting up larger slices of an ever-larger "economic pie." Instead, "the task of a truly capitalistic society is to broaden the ownership of the pie-making machinery and to build a vast number of new pie-making machines that will be owned by people who do not now own such machines...
...Where can you eat in the middle of an American highway? See BUSINESS, Pie...
...Thanksgiving , morning (and presenting a "Miss America" doll from his daughter Patricia for Mohammed's daughter Amina). Nixon stopped briefly at the White House, then went home. Pat Nixon had roasted the 9-lb. turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful...
...trimmings the kitchens will provide three kinds of pie and a pudding for desert plus miscellaneous items to spice up the meal. Each student may, theoretically at least, eat all he wants...