Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington, two tall Wounded Knee veterans named James Pipe-on-Head and Dewey Beard called on small Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier. Their purpose: to urge him to ask Congress to award $1,000 to all living Indian survivors of the battle, including themselves...
...went on, nursing his pipe in informal comfort (he is a big, ruddy man who looks a little like Richard Strauss), "we'll have not only Japanese and Chinese things but also a great wealth of primitive objects from the South Seas and Australia...
...gouty, 78-year-old chief was found at Pirates' Cove sitting cross-legged and barefooted in his striped finery, placidly smoking a pipe. He did not deny the story. Mindful of the Seminole law that the friends of a killer must bring him gifts within three days or be forever branded as his enemies, police searched, discovered that John Osceola had just received some $50 in gifts. Then they arrested...
...them volunteers toiling for love of Saint Gandhi & Mother India. Last November the timetable of the builders was badly upset when the Tapti River unseasonably rose in flood, and failed for six long weeks to subside. During this time it was impossible to ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered a bamboo forest, and drastically decided to build most of the City of bamboo. Three...
During Chicago's International Air Show, the Assistant Secretary of War, thin-haired, pipe-smoking Colonel Louis Arthur Johnson, puffed out a big boast: "No matter what anyone may say, the United States is supreme today in airplanes-supreme in quality and in numbers." Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They...