Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberals split bitterly over the issue, while the pro-Leopoldist Christian Socialists (Catholics) sneered at them as "suburban Machiavellians." The Liberals angrily retorted that the Catholics' Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland was the real Machiavellian-he had meddled with Liberal solidarity. "We are ready to eat the pie," said Liberal Leader Roger Motz, "if it is prepared by a different pastry cook...
Mack Sennett, 66, aging chief of the Keystone Cops, was finishing his first novel. Ingredients: the same old "gags, pie throwing and so on, hung on the theme of a story." Title: The Quince ("You know, the sour fruit on the family tree...
Last week, an unexpected champion arose for the millions who cannot tell Chicken Marengo* from Escalope de Foie Gras Talleyrand† from Surprise Omelet Milord- from apple pie a la mode.†† The champion was a writer for Budapest's Communist daily Vilagossag, who (he related in his column) recently walked into a "people's restaurant" and promptly had his appetite ruined by an item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol...
Straus Hall's Earl Burnett, a 20-year veteran, captains the janitors' team from his first base position. Husky six-footer Burnett, childhood playmate of famous Pirate third-sacker Pie Traynor and ex-Braves pitcher Danny McFayden, boasts a batting average...
...Vote. How little, muses Graves, does today's crude swearer reflect the high polish of his Chinese predecessor. On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities. Moslems still manage this very well, says Graves, but some of their English-speaking contemporaries have grown so dependent on the single epithet "bloody" (probable origin: "by 'r Lady") that they can hardly grasp the meaning of any word without its assistance. As instance, Author Graves quotes two Britons discussing whether any man should...