Word: corncob
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...gets ahead of him. He follows it into the maw of a gigantic machine which has to be reversed to return him to the line. At lunch time, the president of the factory uses him to test a new eating machine which throws soup in his face, jams a corncob against his teeth, pounds his face with a blotter. After this hideous experience, Chaplin goes wild. First he races about the factory pulling all the switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind...
...Edward of Wales in a Provencal fisherman's wide cobalt blue trousers and short-sleeved white shirt with blue bars across the chest, turned up at Cannes dressed exactly like most other swanksters. One of H. R. H.'s entourage of six smoked a corncob pipe labeled "From Missouri." No. 1 Woman remained beauteous Baltimore-born Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, wife of a complacent Briton (TIME, Sept. 24, March 11). Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson and H. R. H. were vexed by an absurd pamphlet purporting to have been written by her and titled What Charmed the Prince...
...audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl, she eventually learned to keep the corncob puffing. She now confesses to enjoying a smoke...
...world's championship belt showing the history of wrestling in twelve plaques. Son of a Greek olive picker, Champion Londos was born near Athens in 1898. He got his nickname in 1915 from a San Francisco sportswriter friend who admired Jack London. He takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe, speaks good English in a squeaky tenor...
...year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much...