Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fought in the U. S. Civil War, became a priest in 1870, is supposed to have twice renounced his rights to an earldom. Alert old Father Quirk has ministered for half a century to three mountain parishes 15 miles apart. Devoted to his collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish to parish on a sturdy grey horse. Once, said he, his eye for horseflesh caused him to stop to admire a number of mounts tethered...
...subsidiary and biggest asset, Simms Oil Co., owner of most of the parent concern's oil properties, to Tide Water Oil Co. for $8,775,000 and interest. That left Simms Petroleum with a few wells at Smackover, Ark., refineries at Smackover and Dallas, a few miles of pipe line. Last week President Edward T. Moore wrote his stockholders: "Your Board of Directors has determined, subject to the approval by stockholders of the proposed sale, that it is advisable that Simms Petroleum Co. dissolve...
Last night Harvard's Little Napoleon was summoned to a private dining room in the Hotel Continental, were a group of his friends, both faculty members and students, were gathered at the festive board to tender a gesture of appreciation and friendship. After the dinner a handsome pipe was presented to the guest of honor...
...indulge in a little purely personal feeling, the censorship in the vicinity of Boston is to me detestable, narrow-minded and undoubtedly something that should have gone out with the stove-pipe hat and knee-britches. Furthermore, even were the articles in the Lampoon to be taken at face-value, I should find them faint-hearted, wishy-washy, just barely pornographic. As they were, I nearly died laughing. Ask any Harvard-man what he thinks of the last Lampoon, and if they are the same men I've asked, you will find them whole-heartedly in its praise. After...
...until after the market closed. When Mr. Parish walked into his office, Mr. Payne said: "How do you like it?" Missouri-Kansas stock had plummeted 15 points. To recoup his losses Pipeman Parish had to sell a half-interest in a Missouri-Kansas subsidiary. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line, to a subsidiary of Columbia Gas & Electric...