Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week burly, whimsical, pipe-sucking Christopher Morley popped O. O. McIntyre onto the front pages with the cry of "plagiarism." The cry was raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years...
...Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks and coaling stations. But for every person who has seen a Fairbanks, Morse municipal power plant or a Fairbanks, Morse oil pipe-line pumping station, thousands in every corner of the civilized world have seen Fairbanks scales...
...supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump in the lake...
...Trust Co., for the last six months a member of the NRA staff. ¶ A "Division of Review" (to gather statistics) was put in charge of Leon C. Marshall, member of the late NIRB. ¶ A "Division of Business Cooperation" (voluntary codes) was headed by Prentiss I. Coonley, ex-pipe-fitting manufacturer, recently assistant to Donald Richberg. ¶ As assistant NRAdministrator, George L. Berry of the A. F. of L. and member of the late NIRB was appointed. ¶ Created to give advice was a council consisting of old NRA workers: Charles Edison, Philip Murray. William Green, Walton H. Hamilton...
...program speech, logically considered, this was sheer bumbling and burbling, but such purely emotional talk from an Englishman like Stanley Baldwin goes straight to English hearts. Voters feel that he cares more for his bucolic pleasures, his famed pigs and still more famed pipe, than for the pig iron that made his late father a multi-millionaire and got him into Parliament...