Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chronic irritation always seems to be the immediate cause of cancer whether the victim is genetically vulnerable or not. The irritation may be mechanical (ill-fitting dentures), physical (pipe smokers' lips), chemical (tar roofers' hands), digestive (caused by bile acids), endocrine (caused by sex hormones). Said Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy of Manhattan...
...profitable field of U. S. history may be the squeaks of indignation that result whenever it does so. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fannie Walton, great-grandniece of Rachel Jackson, and the Nashville Ladies Hermitage Association made strenuous protests because The Gorgeous Hussy showed Mrs. Jackson as a pipe-smoking crone. Said Miss Walton, "I think it's a sacrilege...
...nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews to his identity or his murderer...
...founders, who look down their noses at the raucous upstarts of wind and string. There are 37 piano makers in the U. S. today. In Chicago, W. W. Kimball Co., which ranks high in dollar volume in the medium-price field, has the world's biggest piano and pipe organ factory, makes all its own parts instead of buying them from supply houses like most makers. Kimball sells to dealers on consignment, which is considered sharp practice by most piano...
...mechanic's game." To the Chippewa Indians on a Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...