Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
Kentwood was the idea of nine manufacturers* who teamed up in Depression to form the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild and promote the prestige of Guild-stamped furniture. First plans were drawn by a designer named David Laing Evans, a pipe-smoking, spare-time student of astronomy. Designer Evans submitted ideas that were basically classical. Thereafter the designers for all nine Guildsmen collaborated in streamlining the classics. The pooling of their efforts was an unheard-of procedure in their individualistic industry...
...hoist with a hookah," one pipe addict commented, while another said. "It satisfies our oral libido...
Puffing his pipe in Chapel Hill, N. C. last week, Sir Richard observed: "All my life I've been so busy writing about things that had to be covered that I haven't had time to write about things that intrigued me most. Now that time has come. I've retired as Nature's editor but I have ambitious plans ahead. I'm just 74. My mother lived to be 90 and my father to 84, and, with good health now, I'm not planning to quit...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...