Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through barrages of aromatic tobacco smoke. If no obstacle is encountered the librarians will work on the basis that the proverbial tired business man is not at all a nonenity, but an actuality in the business plant across the Charles and needs nothing so much as a restful pipe of tobacco to sooth his nerves as he labors over ponderous volumes...
...business man of the country with a modern Utopia over the river with all conveniences, not forgetting cheerful dining establishments with buff and rose wall patterns and lacquered panelings, it is contemplated that the finishing touch would be supplied if the graduate business man could meditate over his favorite pipe of tobacco, whether it be Prince Albert, Edgeworth or the latest Union brand. Indeed, someone in authority has stated that if he had his way every man would be compelled to smoke, that he likes to see a man smoke a pipe...
...Indians use tobacco in various ways Four-foot cigars are passed about from one man to another much after the fashion of the North American peace pipe...
...like to see him taking his week-end tramps among the woods and hills, . . . always alone, except for two stalwart figures that follow at a discreet distance, his hat off, his cherry-wood pipe in full blast?he once confessed that he had never given more than a shilling for a pipe?and his long strides devouring the miles with an air of lusty exhilaration. He is English to the core and loves his country for the right things...
Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...