Word: meerschaums
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...Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought with his first savings a miniature medal, a jeweled bird and a very small meerschaum pipe, cornerstones of his present collection...
...March 4 a large group of College officials headed by President Conant and including Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, presented Skehan with a meerschaum amber pipe in commemoration of his fiftieth anniversary of service...
Headed by President Conant, a large number of College officials, including the ubiquitous Colonel Charles R. Apted '03, presented a meerschaum amber pipe to John Skehan yesterday morning in commemoration of 50 years of service in the University...
...distinguished institution with the moldy patina of an old meerschaum pipe is the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Each year it selects one of its members for special glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...
...Boston, Walter L. Colburn won a pair of tickets to a boxing match by guessing that Harvard would beat Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story...