Word: corncob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deerfield, Wis., within a week after his marriage, Editor Harland Everson's Independent ran an ad over his name: "For Sale ... 42 corncob pipes, 1 Home Brew outfit complete . . . 1 address book...
...Middle East set off on a tour of the U.S. During the next 24 days, they slept in farmhouses and penthouses, ate at Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled 6,180 miles, posed for pictures with local mayors and circus freaks, sang Chattanooga Choo Choo in Chattanooga, saw sausages, newspapers and automobiles being made...
...eastern coast of Cape Province, the royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...
...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...