Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tormented bear shot out a big brown paw, pulled Tony into the cage. While the other two urchins yelled and threw mud, small Brother John picked up a piece of iron pipe, squeezed through the bars. With all his might he smacked Lillian across her tender snout. Howling, the bear backed off, let an attendant drag the badly-mauled Tony to safety...
Married. Florence, 23, daughter of the late Richard Teller Crane Jr. (plumbing fixtures), granddaughter of Chicago's famed Iron Master Crane; and William Albert Robinson, 30, explorer-author (Ten Thousand Leagues Over the Sea); in the Crane's pipe-organed mansion in Chicago...
Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
...sportsman with a gun is sitting peacefully on a mossy log, lighting his pipe. Suddenly he sees something moving in the underbrush. He thinks it is a deer. He reaches for his gun. burns his fingers with his match, sprains his ankle falling off the log, accidentally fires a shot which removes one of his toes...
...Vagabond turned over lazily as the Chapel bell tolled the hour, swung his feet to the floor, and rejoiced that it was over. Once again he could ascond the dizzy heights of his aesthotic seclusion, leaving the sordid world of men and Professors. He lighted a leisurely pipe, that first, sweet, fragrant pipe before breakfast. New-found freedom found him unprepared, a man lost in the aether with no ground under his feet. The gleaming morning sun flashed in rosy reflection from the gilt binding of a small book on the dusty shelves. Shelley, that was it! Now there...