Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only European observer to pipe another tune was Columnist George de la Fouchardiere of Paris' Oeuvre: "It reminds one somewhat of the frog who dived into the pond to avoid getting wet in the rain. . . . Our gangster industry is extremely flourishing. . . . Nor are children any more secure here than in the U. S. ... It may be that citizens of the U. S. are in some measure worthy descendants of convicts deported from England, but inhabitants of old Europe are also worthy descendants of the heroic bandits of the Middle Ages...
Small, wiry, compensating for his lack of stature with tremendous energy and wholehearted devotion to salesmanship, Mr. Grant can exhort a sales meeting with an eloquence that makes salesmen laugh, cry and sell. He once told a pipe-smoking salesman that the pipe was costing General Motors $5,000 a year in lost sales energy. Last year Mr. Grant received...
...janitor at the station used to be a plumber", Dr. Clark said, "we decided to build our pyramid out of pipe, each aide being about fifteen feet long. Barrels supported and buoyed it. On top of this triangle a high tower was built, with the instruments at the top. No one believed the thing would float...
...penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with unimpaired efficacy. When the process is complete, the gas is exuded by release of a safety valve and carried off by means of a fan in the outlet pipe. The tapestries and furniture are then removed, having been thoroughly fumigated and all insect matter killed...
...plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await...