Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They both feel somewhat sheepish on account of the lives they are leading, so they decide to fight their way tooth and nail back to the Good Life. True, it's uphill work because of Stevie's lingering desire for strong stimulants and Angle's frequent bouts with the pipe, but love, running true to form triumphs, and a year later finds them both ensconsed in the ancestral mansion. Neither Farrel nor Gaynor sing...
Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...
...daze of fear, kept murmuring, "I cannot understand how El Gallo [The Rooster] escaped." To persons more familiar with the presidential plumbing, explanation was easy. In providing a sumptuous bath for His Excellency's son-in-law, the plumbers had switched over the President's former ventilation pipe to ventilate the Obregons...
...soldier had been caught redhanded, had confessed to setting the bomb, but resisted strongly all questions as to where he got the bomb and how he knew, or thought he knew, which bathroom pipe was the President...
...wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...