Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musically, the picture offers a reminiscent run-through of almost all the old Glenn Miller favorites (In the Mood, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Pennsylvania 6-5000, Tuxedo Junction, Little Brown Jug), though Louis Armstrong, playing a pie-eyed piper in one scat session, may make the audience wish for a few wild minutes that this were Armstrong's story and not Miller...
Since last Jan. 20, said the President, his Administration has been like a man building a house-planning and building "the foundation for our forthcoming legislative program." The result: "It is a program that does not deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family-whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation...
...socket type joints that allow it to wander a little when expanding or contracting. The diminutive walls have to be kept clear of the moving, self-supporting roof. Now swaddled in canvas and scaffolding, the structure looks non-descript in the extreme. But, undaunted by its present mud-pie look, R. M. Kimball, chairman of the building committee, expects "wonderful things" from the auditorium...
...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
...transit itself was not spectacular, for planets are insignificant on the solar scale. Mercury looked like a grain of bird shot creeping across a pie. What interested the astronomers was the timing of Mercury's appearance. It never keeps appointments exactly, and they have learned a great deal by figuring out what makes it early or late for a date...