Word: corncob
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...left a law chair at Pennsylvania to go to Washington. Now 40 and an intellectual in a government of intellectuals, he has proved one of the most moderate of the Washington professors. In conference he lectures in his best pontifical manner, but in his office he puffs a corncob pipe, swings his feet to the desk...
...their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes...
...Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit...
...leave. In a mountain defile their car hit a hidden barricade, both boys were shot to death. The scandal was immense. Under U. S. pressure Taabor Pasha handed over the government to Karadagh. Attracted by the furor came Star Reporter Manfred B. Tate who was addicted to smoking a corncob pipe in hotel dining rooms, served no masters, feared no groups. Reporter Tate sailed right in, investigated along his own peculiar line. When he reached the end of that line he found a very peculiar hook, with a very peculiar catch, which caused two more...
...Francisco 17 years ago. During the winter, Champion Londos wrestles three times a week, makes about $250,000 a year. This season he has defended his title 207 times. He lives in St. Louis, eats enormously, maintains a library of 1,200 volumes, takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe...