Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing serious was the matter and according to Captain Mahoney of the Yard Police the trouble was caused by a broken pipe in the basement. About two inches of water covered the floor of the cellar but no damage was done to the first floor...
...steps, Professor Merriman turned the pages of the frank guide to Freshmen courses, which the CRIMSON issued in pamphlet form this fall for the first time, and quivers of amusement began to gather around his inevitable pipe as he scanned the expressed criticisms of so many sacred institutions of the Harvard curriculum...
...built at Newport News, Va. in 1930 for $5,500.000. Against fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system was designed to indicate instantly the position of fire in any part of the vessel...
...Perry has been three times around the world. He has 50 tennis trophies, including spears and shields from Africa. He smokes a pipe, never drinks. He drives a car cautiously, avoids travel by plane. Slightly ashamed of his skill at table tennis, he now plays only onboard ship. He plays tennis eight months every year, does not practice before a match because it does his game no good. His fiancee is British Cinemactress Mary Lawson, a onetime tap dancer, who is 5 ft. tall, wears size 2 shoes, plays no tennis at all. Last week she was at Shepherd...
...literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once a widower and twice married, he has a family of five daughters, one son. Pudgy, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking. Author Priestley is an apotheosis of the sensible self-made British author...