Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week there were more whispers when word went about that Mrs. Edge had administered a charming rebuke to Vice President Dawes. It happened at a recent dinner party given by the Edges. Mr. Dawes pulled out his underslung pipe during the salad course, asked Mrs. Edge: "You really wouldn't mind if I smoked my pipe...
Said Mrs. Edge with a wise smile: "Not even the Vice President of the United States can smoke his pipe at this dinner table. You smoke a cigaret. You cannot smoke your pipe in this room, until the dinner is over and everybody but yourself has a chance to escape...
...Fuller '26, one of those arrested, was injured after being placed in the patrol wagon. Fuller had an unlighted pipe in his mouth. He was ordered to remove the pipe, but before he could comply, he was hit across the face with a night stick. The blow broke his glasses, fractured his nose, and inflicted a gash that required three stitches on his cheek...
...Nobody," said the Dean, looking up from the funny page. "Nobody," he said, as he filled his pipe with something...
...just a girl," beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...