Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book, Federal Government in Kansas City; jars and jars of Texas honey; four boxes of homemade fudge wrapped in red, white & blue by the Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen Johnson, Georgia's Eurith D. Rivers, Mississippi's Paul Johnson, Tennessee...
Under these auspices Jay Cooke went to the fray last week, represented in propaganda as a pipe-smoking, outdoor man. Impartial observers predicted that November would find Joe Guffey and the Pennsylvania Democrats much farther outdoors than astute Mr. Cooke...
...company of Gardner, Mass, (pop. 20,397) has a shiny new truck, a new office on the town square at the corner of Vernon and Parker Streets. It also has a new president and owner: comfortable, pipe-smoking Harold Emerson Greenwood. More than all these it has a new legend for thrifty Gardner folk: how 45-year-old "Bob" Greenwood bought the whole works-the silvered storage tank, the grimy plant down by the Boston & Maine tracks, the mains connecting with 800-odd Gardner homes...
Squalid, squatty towns appalled Mrs. Roosevelt ("At one place I saw a water pipe line next to a privy"). She judged planned private camps for Okies to be somewhat better, Government camps, with sheet-metal huts and neatly ordered community laundries, recreation halls and self-governing councils, best of all. But in none of these stopgaps, said she, lay a solution to California's problem ("We must get these people back on land that they own"). A reporter asked whether, having seen the Okies, she thought that Novelist John Steinbeck had exaggerated. "I have never believed that The Grapes...
...European peace pipe, whose coal had been kept fitfully glowing for a month while Sumner Welles made his reportorial rounds (see p. 14), had never been cooler than it was last week. On Easter Sunday in Rome Pope Pius XII not only spoke mournfully of "this critical moment when sorrowful things appear to the eyes of all," but foresaw "even more dreadful things ... for the future...