Word: meerschaums
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...Pipe: Meerschaum, with gold band, from Vineyard, Mass...
Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The great Vienna International Fair, Austria's semi-annual chance to make trade contacts with other countries would open in a few days. Without tourists, the fair could not succeed. What was the Chancellor going...
...Boston Lawyer Thomas N. Perkins. On the green cloth in front of Chairman Young were two white blocks of foolscap, two and a half inches thick, copies in French and English of the famed agreement, neatly prepared by Sir Josiah Stamp, head of the British delegation, and a white meerschaum pipe, gift of John Pierpont Morgan...
...this point a door opened and through it strode a tall, heavy man of magnificent carriage, instantly recognizable as John Pierpont Morgan. He was smoking a comfortably big meerschaum pipe, but his visage was not benign. He spoke: "This is an infernal outrage. . . . You fellows get along...
There a newsgatherer sat last week as the Marshal reminisced of the days when his title was Generalissimo of the Allied Forces. Puffing slowly at his meerschaum he said: "You know, I never commanded in the way people imagine. What I did was to bring those about me to accept my opinions, which is quite a different thing. . . . To command is nothing. . . . What is necessary always is to get a good understanding with those with whom one has to deal, to understand them and get them to understand you. That is the whole secret, not only of successful command...