Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most successful of all newsletters is grizzled, pipe-smoking Commander Stephen King-Hall's K.H. News-Letter. A smooth speaker on the "Children's Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...
...begins the day at 8 o'clock, digesting thoroughly the daily papers. Breakfast is a political meeting, with the cartoonist, his wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
...possible influence on U. S. young of Susannah of the Mounties is not to be taken lightly. In Susannah Shirley smokes. She enjoys her first whiff of the weed with a young Indian hostage called Little Chief (Martin Good Rider), passing back & forth a small but sure-enough pipe of peace. Whatever the effect of this may be on the behavior of Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked...
...Wheeling Steel program is Little Steel's most ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much...
Scottish David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs on the ship-building Clyde, depends for Parliamentary repartee largely on two phrases: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry...