Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS?Selected by Wilfred Partington?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Some hold that Old King Cole's wide reputation as a ban vivant rests largely upon the gusto with which, in enumerating his postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth...
Poet Henley once began: "If I were king, my pipe should be premier." "Hail, social tube," sang Dr. Syntax. Moreover, there is an ode, well-deserving of immortality, by one Francis Hoyland: On An Old Maid That Chewed Tobacco...
Premier Baldwin took himself solemnly to his study in No. 10 Downing St., sat down, puffed his pipe, thought over selecting a successor to the late Lord Curzon as Lord President of the Privy Council...
...stockmarket, one of the leading sensations was provided by the astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares...
...sudden prosperity of Cast Iron Pipe has resulted mainly from the De Lavand process of making pipe, which has resulted in such large economies as to enable the Company to undersell LT. S. competitors with ease. But the competition of France and other European countries has held prices down, and constitutes a future problem...