Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While foreign countries expressed their unbounded approval, Premier Herriot of France journeyed to London to confer with Premier MacDonald of Britain upon the enactment of the Experts' Report. The two Premiers then traveled to the Chilterns and settled down in Chequers Court to a pipe-puffing conference...
...concentrated eyes of the eame element that awaited the citation of the Government's credo. President Doumergue, who hails from the Midi (Southern France), found time to say that he was a bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating Premier of France...
Very patently to capture the imagination of Evanston, Mr. Dawes has attractions other than his now famous trick pipe and loud vocabulary...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...
...flurry was caused by a letter from Mayor Curley (Democrat) of Boston to Senator David Ignatius Walsh. The Mayor asked for an investigation of the Coolidge campaign fund contributions on the basis of the following paragraph from a letter sent out by the chairman of the "Pipe Fitting and Allied Material Group" in Massachusetts to make collections...