Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...
...than one Margate Conservative stoutly said. In short, the Conference atmosphere last week was not 1936, but at least as far back as 1836. This fact made headlines because there was no "human interest" news about what the Prime Minister had had to say at Margate or about his pipe or his pigs. Stanley Baldwin was absent and absent too was the amiable humbug with which he has led Great Britain for so long, meandering down the winding path of least resistance in both home and foreign affairs. A reborn fighting Conservative spirit was stirring at Margate last week...
...Boston Redskins, put him out of the National League two years ago, Dr. March wrote a book called Pro Football, which stamps him as the leading U. S. authority on the subject. Last spring he promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among its stockholders is Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). The team plays...
...belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates in the stomach, which the patient soon learns to treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like strangled grunts. Although these people eventually learn to enunciate clearly, their voices always have a flat, lifeless tone...
...with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman with her diamond rings pulls that man around by her apron strings...