Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 14 years of marriage to onetime Heavyweight Puncher Lou Nova, his wife decided she wanted a divorce. Among the reasons: his habit of putting his bare feet on the dining room table next to his mother-in-law's lemon meringue pie...
...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...
...found Mrs. Emile LaBorde and family, who had faced the flood with oldtimers' calm (she baked a berry pie after most of their neighbors had fled), then left everything behind and ridden a rescue boat to a disaster station, where they thought of little but the opportunity to get back to their home...
...transfer yards and shops, inundated the spreading stockyards, coursed through factories. Rescue workers had a hard time convincing some oldtime residents to leave, so sure were they that the flood would be no worse than in 1903. Mrs. Emile LaBorde, who had lived there 32 years, baked a berry pie for her husband while sirens roared outside. Finally the LaBordes retreated to the upstairs. "I kept counting those 14 steps," said Mrs. LaBorde. "It wasn't so bad until it got up to No. 9. When the water got to the top step, I decided...
...everyone will be so easily impressed. In The Triumphant Clay, Rupert Hughes-who has written more than a score of popular novels and a three-volume biography of Washington-has hurled at his public a great soft pie of semipornographic muck...