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Word: bowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...cold remedy), and in many another household drug, drugs that seem kind. Opium gum looks like black paste. Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting; then they put it in the tiny bowl of a long pipe. Their dreams are gentle. Opium does not waste tissues so quickly as does alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...

Author: By R. K. I., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

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