Word: funnelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Stoopnagle, you will remember, took a military course at Harvard during the war. Before he had been there long he discovered the funnel leading from the Yard down to the river. "What I always wanted," he said, "was to have them turn that tunnel around so that the river end would be at the Yard and you wouldn't have so far to walk to get to the boathouses...
...rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
...Vixen, got a Congressional Medal and a gold sword for battling the Barbary pirates. Great-grandfather John Trippe commanded the U. S. S. John Trippe, smallest sloop in the battle of Lake Erie. The present U. S. S. John Trippe sports two gold stars on its funnel for sinking two German submarines. Lately it patrolled Rum Row. Father Charles White Trippe was a Manhattan banker. He married Lucy A. Terry, whose family, somewhere along the line, had acquired Latin blood. That accounts for the historic "John" becoming Juan (named for a beloved Aunt Juanita). Also it accounts for Juan Trippe...
When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...
...letter about Doyle and Lodge to the effect that every TIME reader should know that Doyle is dead and Lodge alive (TIME, Jan. 18). Not only are many of your readers acquainted with this fact but many of them also know that Doyle and not Poe wrote The Leather Funnel (TIME, Jan. 25, footnote on p. 13). In fact it was Doyle's favorite among his own short stories...