Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber, paunchy, pipe-sucking Radical Socialist Leader Edouard Herriot elaborately explained to whoever would listen that he had been faithless to M. Doumergue and encompassed his Cabinet's fall (TIME, Nov. 19) because he thought the beloved ex-President intended to set up some kind of Dictatorship...
...infectious laugh. Equally famed was his powerful voice. He never used a megaphone when docking his ship, and many a sailor used to say no ship needed a foghorn so long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine in Mudro Bay. For that her master was decorated...
...distinguished institution with the moldy patina of an old meerschaum pipe is the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Each year it selects one of its members for special glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...
...paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...
...Radical Socialist Ministers, headed by M. Edouard Herriot, announced that they would resign, rather than support a three-month emergency credit to give Premier Doumergue time to put through his proposed reform of the Constitution (TIME, Nov. 12), lean, grizzled Marshal Pétain marched up to paunchy, pipe-sucking M. Herriot and hissed "Monsieur, you have committed a crime against France...