Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...euphony of current advertisements, water pipe manufacturers have been trumpeting, bugling, tooting and piping the merits of various pipe materials. Brassmen have clarioned that brass pipes last a lifetime, do not rust. Ironmen have said the same for iron-pipes...
...blossoms, circled the Lincoln Memorial. As Mrs. Hoover turned homeward into West Executive Ave. a motorist swung into a parking space, missed it, backed out to try again, thus blocking traffic. Mrs. Hoover gave her horn an impatient toot. Not recognizing her, the motorist signaled the First Lady to "pipe down." She did, smiling...
Made of a tin box, an iron pipe, a pinch of gun powder, a box of matches, sandpaper and some wax, the "bomb" turned out to be a "practical joke...
...only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...