Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting in the Senate Chamber of the Oklahoma Legislature, corn cob pipe between his teeth, Governor J. C. Walton attended his impeachment trial. Five lawyers defended him. Members of the State House of Representatives directed the prosecution. The members of the Senate sat as a Court of Impeachment...
Christopher Morley has as good a time living his life as any man I've ever met. He seems always to be happy, always in the mood for the quiet enjoyment of food, a pipe, conversation. His zest for life is amazing. Some years back it caused him to produce book after book, although they were varyingly successful and, to the discriminating, often only mildly amusing. He was the most prolific of essayists, but his stories smelt strongly of the study and of a too intimate acquaintance with the classics. However, Christopher Morley, both in his poetry and his prose...
Last Friday the beauty of the services in Emanuel Synagogue, Hartford, were enhanced by the playing of a pipe-organ...
...last few kick-offs, in which Russell Hubbard '24, flanked by the grey hooded coaches, booted the ball into the midst of the waiting team A. Head Coach Fisher, and his assistants Mahan, Soney, Woods, Owen, Kane, Buel, Trumbull, and Dr. Parmenter,--the last with the never-missing pipe in his mouth--charged down the field under Hubbard's kick, and made up in noise what they lacked in numbers...
...that came to call him to account for his protection of Bent Bushyager? his second marriage and the beginning of his fame as a newspaper- paragrapher?his final happiness. Vivid characters move across the spacious stage of the story: Fremont's great-hearted mother with her pipe and her commonsense; Raws Upright; Captain Ashe and his three pretty daughters; Paul Holbrook, the local "dude' and amateur politician. There is a certain largeness of incident and method like that of the prairies themselves...