Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best apple pie in the U.S. is served in Cripple Creek, Colo.?" This association officially objects to the kudos carelessly flung at Cripple Creek by the wandering Gills [Oct. 31]. Our vice presidents annually proclaim that the apple pie supreme is artistically contrived by the rural housewives of the Middle West...
ROBERT L. FINCH President and Top Crust Apple Pie Testers Association Columbus, Ohio
...Milwaukee matrons or millionaire Texans. He is not interested in who sells the stock-or in what companies-so long as the stock is sound. Says he: "A very small amount of personal savings goes into direct stock ownership. I'm not interested in how we split the pie. I want a bigger pie...
Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
...Humble Pie. "When our number is 40, they mock and tease; when we're 39, they're down on their knees," runs an old academy jingle. However talented and rebellious, aspirants to this particular Olympus must first appease the gods-in-being by eating a certain amount of literary humble pie. An applicant must beg for admission in terms as carefully prescribed as an ancient Hittite ritual; his friends must sedulously woo the Immortals in his behalf. "Is your poetry any good?" snapped a windy old Immortal at Victor Hugo when he was seeking entrance. "I have been...