Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education at Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious in the British sense...
Twenty four hours after they had smoked the pipe of peace with President Roosevelt at the White House, the powerful executive council of the American Federation of Labor faced the Senatorial group to insist upon an amendment known to be obnoxious to the chief executive...
...PIPE DREAM OF PEACE - John W. Wheeler-Bennett - Morrow ($3). The author of The Wreck of Reparations calls his new book "The Story of the Collapse of Disarmament." A more serious and solemn discussion of the subject that Drew Pearson and Constantine Brown recently put into the wisecracks of The American Diplomatic Game...
...such reasonable modifications of the system can be combined with a judicious inspection of the list of applicants for each college to prevent any obvious disparity, allocation can be made to the satisfaction of the vast majority. A hope for anything better is a pipe-dream. Yale Daily News...
...amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl, she eventually learned to keep the corncob puffing. She now confesses to enjoying a smoke, is having difficulty...