Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...61st birthday, pipe-smoking, violin-playing Albert Einstein admitted his long-sought formula that will comprehend the universe had not been found. Said he: "I am having difficulty there." Asked if he would celebrate his birthday, he chuckled: "What is there to celebrate? . . . Birthdays are for children...
...that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut one's eyes and thus seek to avoid the horrid sight of the bloody and seething world revolution which threatens to overwhelm...
When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
TIME to apologize. Smoking a pipe for about 50 years has not made me forget the city of my birth. Why, I was raised on Wheeling stogies [TIME, Feb. 12, p. 16], and what could a poor boy do if it had not been for those grand old stogies-the sweetest smoke ever...
...Bellevue Hospital lay Partner Milton B. Logan, his skull fractured by a blow with a lead-filled iron pipe. In a Brooklyn grave lay Partner John T. Geery, a bullet hole blown in his brain. In jail without bail sat Newsdealer John Poggi, charged with using the lead pipe on Logan at Geery's instigation...