Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit of a British Prime Minister to the U. S. Everyone in London (and many throughout England*) felt the moment keenly. People hovered about Downing Street. What could properly be called the World Press was on tiptoes and the telephone. The U. S. Ambassador, Charles Gates Dawes, arrived (without pipe, for the spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor Chief, for the general good it might...
...were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck the wheelhouse rail. After the volley the Coast Guard boat hailed: "What ship is that...
...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
That's what it was--a bar. The piece of pipe was the foot rest and there were shelves in the thing for the storage of an ample supply of bottles...
...policy of an undergraduate newspaper is an intangible essence at best but out of the tangle of journalistic theories and idealistic pipe dreams that invariably permeate the atmosphere of any college daily, one fact makes itself obvious: namely, that in a University composed of many different schools and institutions to the total of eight thousand of more students, no opinion can be typical of the whole. The number of undergraduate dailies that have fallen by the wayside in the attempt to strike the "typical undergraduate opinion" is legion...