Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscription, as so many of your disgusted readers seem to do. Instead, I shall insist that you send me every last one of the 21 copies which are due me on my present subscription. When I receive them I shall use them as waste paper, lighters for my pipe, wipers for my razor...
...scalp badly lacerated from a Florida train wreck early in the month. His physicians could not keep him quiet at home; ordered him to the hospital; permitted him to use the telephone. He learned that some of his pet stocks-among them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy, his secretary, he quietly talked; ordered large buying orders in those securities. Their board quotations climbed at once, and next day's newspapers headlined "Sick Man Rallies Stock Market...
After the National Cash Register deal, newspaper men found him puffing an old black pipe and talking about "team work." "All of us are cogs in a great machine. . . . There can be no leadership in modern enterprises-they are too big. In board meeting I don't sit at the head of the table. I sit anywhere. . . . Money? What is there to it? ... After man's material wants are satisfied all that remains to the making of money is the power to accomplish something for the common good...
...Keep the cans out of the sun in summer and away from steam pipe-and stoves in winter. Don't allow the water to freeze...
Perhaps the strangest of all gifts of three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...