Mom and apple pie

mom and apple pie English Noun - Mom and apple pie en mom and apple pie. en Hugh G. J. Aitken A Hard Look at Honors Program: A Critical View The Superior Student 2 1 Boulder, Colo. February 1959 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_superior-student_1959-02_2_1/page/4/mode/1up 2 0585-9719 A case in point is the current concern over the drafting of Honors programs in our colleges. To be “against” Honors programs is now almost as unthinkable as to be “against” Mom and apple pie. en w:Judith Crist Introduction Richard J. Anobile A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W. C. Fields New York, N.Y. Darien House Inc. 1972 17–18 https://archive.org/details/flaskoffieldsver00anob/page/18/mode/1up 72-88687 The seeming rambling plotlessness (and consider, in the context of Hollywood slickeries of production and Mom-and-apple-pie-isms of the era, the courage of his producers in permitting him his free-form structures, let alone his iconoclasms) puts an aura of carelessness on his work. en Steve Cornett [Voices of the West] MXing for Mom and apple pie Charles Clayton w:Cycle News XI 38 Long Beach, Calif. Cycle News, Inc. 1 October 1974 4 https://archive.org/details/cycle-news-1974-10-01/page/n3/mode/1up 2 MXing for Mom and apple pie It just so happens that Brad Lackey is one of the top ten 500сс motocrossers in the world. He’s only 20 years old and already riding with the best of them. Besides that, he’s an outasight dude doing his thing for Mom and apple pie. All us kids back in the states like to keep track of what he’s up to, and as a matter of fact, his right profile looks a bit like Peter Fonda. en Tupper L. Turner Catch the Brass Ring: Favorite Music from an Old-Fashioned Merry-Go-Round 1 North Hollywood, Calif. Klavier Records 1975 4 75-750687 Among the treasured artifacts of Americana — right up there with “Mom and apple pie” and, of course, the Stars and Stripes, will — or should — always be this colorful, captivating reminder of the never-never land that, hopefully, will forever be with us. en Fraud Course Coming September https://archive.org/details/fyi-1976-february-26/page/n1/mode/1up FYI 2 21 Montreal, Que. w:Concordia University 26 February 1976 2 Club rules for the state of perfect competition are these: 1. the club must be made up of ethical people 2. the state must eschew excess profits and wealth, and resources must be rationally allocated. All this might sound like Mom and apple pie, and appear so obvious that these articles would not require restating, if it wasn’t for the fact that the basic rules for survival and performance call for the exact reverse in business activity. en Katie Kelly My Prime Time: Confessions of a TV Watcher New York, N.Y. Seaview Books 1980 130 and 168 0-87223-615-3 And Bert Parks was part of all that. He was Mom and apple pie. He was the Miss America Pageant. Television now dominates our lives like nothing else in the world. Not newspapers, not magazines, not school. And to the dismay of many—not even Mom and apple pie. en The Stroller [pseudonym] Stroller follows strike pattern w:Northwest Missourian 43 6 Maryville, Mo. w:Northwest Missouri State University 24 July 1981 2 https://archive.org/details/1981-07-24.THENORTHWESTMISSOURIAN/page/2/mode/1up Your Stroller has been working on a new contract for himself and is getting ready to present it to the management of this paper. Your hero is just simply not paid enough. I know that your man is so much of a tradition on this campus that he’s almost as dear to your heart as Mom and apple pie, but apparently traditions aren’t so sacred anymore. en Ruth Alford Read To Chris Dedication Winston, Salem, N.C. John F. Blair 1982 46 https://archive.org/details/dedication0000read/page/46/mode/1up 0-89587-023-1 You’re such an impossible kid . . . Every normal, red-blooded, All-American (almost) 12-year-old boy should be (according to all standards) totally obnoxious. / Not to be / is to be unfaithful / to God and church / Mom and apple pie / not to mention dear old Dad. en H[oward] Bruce Franklin Don’t Look Where We’re Going: Visions of the Future in Science-Fiction Films, 1970-82 Science-Fiction Studies 10 Greencastle, Ind. 1983 74 https://archive.org/details/001Scifi1/page/74/mode/1up 0091-7729 This quest for the mythic middle-American past is the exact opposite of the vision in A Boy and his Dog, where it is the values of middle America itself that have launched the devastation, and where the red-white-and-blue Mom-and-apple-pie underground town of Topeka is the demonic center of the hell it has created. en Maxene: An Andrews Sister https://archive.org/details/cd_maxene-an-andrews-sister_maxene New York, N.Y. DRG Records Incorporated 1985 The very mention of The Andrews Sisters is enough to conjure up visions of Mom and apple pie for most Americans. Since their first hit in the late 1930’s, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” their sound has been a symbol of happiness and hope. en Brian Jones Crisp Contradiction: Solving This Conundrum Leads to the Meaning of Life w:Bay Area Reporter XV 11 San Francisco, Calif. 14 March 1985 22 https://archive.org/details/BAR_19850314/page/n21/mode/1up If the straight world is epitomized by Mom and apple pie, the epitome of the Gay world is camp and Quentin Crisp. There’s little joy in savaging Mom and apple pie or camp and Quentin Crisp, but I feel compelled to. en Daniel Mumper Micro Deal’s "Jupiter Probe": An ST Review by Daniel Mumper The MilAtari Ltd. Edition 6 9 West Allis, Wis. The Milwaukee Area Atari Users Group October 1987 13 https://archive.org/details/1987-07-08-mil-atari-newsletter/MilAtari%201987/1987%2010%20MilAtari%20Newsletter/page/13/mode/1up 2 Due to the above facts and opinions, I would consider it a pleasure to recommend this example of elegant video art and ingenuity to any and all with the will to win, and the steadfastness to win. Just remember, we’re not talking a few days of excitement, we’re talking weeks, if you can take it. For Mom and apple pie, go get them aliens, and save the Earth! en w:Diana Hacker Rules for Writers: A Concise Handbook 2nd New York, N.Y. Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press 1988 48 https://archive.org/details/rulesforwritersc00hack/page/48/mode/1up 0-312-00357-9 Team sports, as much a part of American life as Mom and apple pie, tend to bring us together. en Siebrand H. Niewenhous III American Values versus Low Intensity Conflict Carlisle Barracks, Pa. U.S. Army War College 30 March 1988 17 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA195024/page/17/mode/1up Our military and political leadership will continue to be haunted and influenced by the negative lessons of Vietnam. For these reasons informed Americans will not be persuaded by facile "Mom and apple pie" arguments and shallow, anti-communist rhetoric. en Stanley L. Harrison Teaching Public Relations: The Role of Ethics 13 August 1989 1 https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED310428/page/n4/mode/1up None disagreed with either statement. Since ethics is the 1980s equivalent of America’s belief in Mom and apple pie, practically every respondent, as might be expected, reported that their public relations courses include ethics (93 percent). en Lee Cheaney; Maury Cotter Quality—The Key Elements Real People, Real Work: Parables on Leadership in the 90’s Knoxville, Tenn. SPC Press, Inc. 1991 xvii https://archive.org/details/realpeoplerealwo00chea/page/n32/mode/1up 0-945320-11-6 A great statistician named George Box once said, “You know, there are things like Mom and apple pie and the flag, and then there are things that people argue about. Well, Quality is like Mom and apple pie. It isn’t something to argue about.” en Paul Sherlock Rethinking Business to Business Marketing New York, N.Y. The Free Press 1991 viii (Contents) and 127 (Product Support) 0-02-928615-8 A short chapter on product support suggesting a little more than just “Mom and apple pie.” It is difficult to write about the subject of product support or service without sounding like “Mom and apple pie”, but perhaps good support is of that nature. en George Grant Hillarious: The Wacky Wit, Wisdom, and Wonderment of Hillary Rodham-Clinton Franklin, Tenn. Adroit Press 1992 9 https://archive.org/details/hillariouswackyw00gran/page/9/mode/1up 0-9633469-0-3 The real story of the Democratic Party lies beyond the pall of the handlers. It lies beyond the red, white, and blue multi-media antics within Madison Square Garden or before the fawning and yammering of press legions. It lies beyond the small-town Mom and apple pie images projected onto arena video-walls or bunted along the perimeter of midwestern Amtrak or Greyhound stations. en [Did You Know?] It’s True…Coca-Cola Began as a Headache Cure! https://archive.org/details/NUTSNewsletter199412/page/n3/mode/1up Eric Jameson; Karen Secor The Token Hunter:A Publication of the National Utah Token Society Dedicated to Collecting, Recording and Preserving Medals, Tokens and Bottles 13 12 [South Salt Lake, Ut.] National Utah Token Society December 1994 3 Today, Coke is sold in 160 countries around the world. And, although a bottle of Coke may no longer cure a headache, it still is about as all-American as Mom and apple pie. en Jeanne Allen Angela Dale The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools Washington, D.C. The Center for Education Reform 1995 59–60 https://archive.org/details/schoolreformhand00alle/page/59/mode/1up 0-9646028-0-6 There was a time when the PTA was as wholesome as Mom and apple pie; the school bake sale funded much needed library books; and parents’ input generally had a positive impact on the school’s governance. Unfortunately, it should no longer be equated with Mom and apple pie. en Introduction https://archive.org/details/route66dineincoo0000unse/page/n1/mode/1up Route 66 Dine In Cookbook: Flavors of Route 66 in the Comfort of Your Own Home! Mesa, Ariz. Terrell Publishing Co. 1996 1-56274-267-1 Like Mom and apple pie, America has come to love the very idea of Route 66. More than a highway concerning the Midwest to the Pacific Coast, this is a road that connected people. en Michelle Aston; Adrienne E. Hyle Social Networks, Teacher Beliefs, and Educational Change October 1997 38 https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED420621/page/n38/mode/1up General Pedagogy – traditional “goods” of basic foundation, basic skills, prepare students to succeed in society, develop self-confidence, and provide a balanced education. In sum, general pedagogy was “Mom and apple pie.” en w:National Defense University Lost Priorities 1998 3–4 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA442002/page/3/mode/1up Is this objective acceptable to the American public as well as other affected parties? In my view, our objectives are generally written in “Mom and apple pie” terms that have always been and will probably continue to be our general objectives. en w:Erika Lopez Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat Trilogy of Tomatoes New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster 2001 66 https://archive.org/details/hoochiemamalaotr0000lope/page/66/mode/1up 0-684-86974-8 “1 Every generation has their own references. We also can’t think about the Bates Motel without a shower curtain, knife, and a scream.” / “Yeah, me too,” I eagerly agreed. / “Well, you’ve got to think about your own. Like Mom and apple pie, although that must be a pre–World War II reference because my mom never made an apple pie in her life.” en Anne Dimock Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust Kansas City, Mo. w:Andrews McMeel Publishing 2005 56 (Apple) and 95 (Pie as Feminist Tool) 978-0-7407-5465-4 Apples symbolize some of our strongest values: health—an apple a day keeps the doctor away; education—the shiny red apple for the teacher; family—Mom and apple pie; and the flag—as American as apple pie. Mom and apple pie will always be part of our national mythology, as well as the Thanksgiving Day tableau of five pies cooling on the sill, Grandma wiping her brow but still smiling. en Paul Hemp Growing for Broke When Your Strategy Stalls Management Dilemmas Boston, Mass. Harvard Business School Press 2005 107 and 118 1-59139-712-X “Nikolas, growth is as American as Mom and apple pie,” my father would say to me—he loved using all-American expressions like that. It occurred to me that kudzu was now becoming as American as Mom and apple pie. en Michael Krondl The Donut: History, Recipes, and Lore from Boston to Berlin Chicago, Ill. w:Chicago Review Press 2014 58 https://archive.org/details/donuthistoryreci0000kron/page/58/mode/1up 978-1-61374-670-7 The Salvation Army lassies could certainly take a lot of credit for the improved standing of the all-American pastry. Yet even so, in 1918, the transformation wasn’t complete. At the time, the donut still shared the stage with Mom and apple pie as embodiments of what the doughboys had fought for. en Jeff Alworth Cider Made Simple: All About Your New Favorite Drink San Francisco, Calif. w:Chronicle Books 2015 127 https://archive.org/details/cidermadesimplea0000alwo/page/127/mode/1up 978-1-4521-3445-1 In the campaign, William Henry “Tippecanoe” Harrison and John Tyler used images of log cabins and cider barrels as symbols of their authenticity against patrician incumbent Martin Van Buren—the 1840s version of running on Mom and apple pie. The point: Harrison was as obsolete as log cabins and cider. Not Mom and apple pie—gramophones and leisure suits.