Word: piked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing on the same bill at the Metropolitan is the Preston Sturges comedy, "The Lady Eve." This film, also an old-timer, is a sophisticated piece about a confidence woman and the heir to the fortunes of Pike's Pale, "The Ale that Won for Yale." The dialogue abounds in double entendres of the highest order. At the same time, "The Lady Eve" has its share of slapstick, too. Henry Fonda, as the slow-witted heir, takes no less than nine pratfalls in the course of the movie...
Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee...
Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight...
...firemen. The wooden superstructure was gone, steel deck plates were buckled. From twisted davits hung fire-scarred metal lifeboats, looking like flimsy toys that had been smashed by an angry child. In a knee-deep litter of embers and melted glass, the firemen went to work with blowtorches, pike poles and shovels, to get to the charred bodies of those who had been burned or asphyxiated or trampled to death...
...Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...