Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruddy, jolly, pipe-smoking Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, last week delivered his 'valedictory at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed on the S. S. Empress of Scotland for England and his official duties at Westminster. Said he, speaking also for Mrs. Baldwin, who accompanied...
...make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched his pipe in a grin and said he would "saw wood...
...Baldwin's luncheon speech fully reciprocated the compliments of H. R. H., but the Prime Minister's words at a conference with newsgatherers were less formal and more like his comfortable, pipe-nursing self. As the correspondents entered he remarked: "It's a nice morning I've brought with...
...roosted, last week, Mrs. Kelly passed up to him bottles of milk, broth, coffee-but no solid food. Any surplus he poured down a pipe running alongside the flagpole. He smoked, per day, approximately four packages of cigarets. Cheery, he called down to reporters: "After 48 hours of this you don't mind anything...
...Stove pipe committee"?conductors in conversation (cf. Tweedledee & Tweedledum above). In the eyes of some porters, some conductors are "pretty high-hat," toplofty, consciously superior...