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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop on the itinerary of Commissioner MacCormick's raiding party was a cell-block largely tenanted by narcotic addicts who whimpered in their blankets, begged their visitors for "just a little shot." In their littered cells were found electric stoves, pots, pans, hatchets, butcher knives, lengths of lead pipe, needle-pointed stilettos (see cut). Some narcotics were discovered, a complete hypodermic set, blackened spoons in which "dope" had been cooked, needles and gouges with which inmates without syringes gashed themselves to let the precious drugs into their veins. To the police it looked more like a hop house than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: World's Worst | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...adequate space, TIME is preparing a Letter Page Supplement which will be mailed, free, to any TIME reader on request. This supplement will contain an overflow of controversy, correction and information on TIME subjects ranging from Oklahoma's Chief Justice to Prize Lies, from Andrew Jackson's pipe-smoking wife to the Loch Ness Monster. To obtain a copy of the Letter Page Supplement, write to I. Van Meter, editorial secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd Street, New York City.-ED. President's Voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

First Lady and Pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Andrew Jackson's relict was ostracized in Washington society for smoking her proverbial pipe and being a divorcee. . . . Unlike Mrs. Roosevelt, who as TIME states, smokes only for purpose of placing her guests at ease, Mrs. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson thoroughly enjoyed the relaxation provided by her tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 73rd Congress: THE BIG COMMITTEE | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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