Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season of rowing about which many pipe dreams have been built and smashed in quick order was officially launched with very few and very matter of fact details this afternoon, as regular work-outs were started, and regular training was planned for March...
Ample, illustrious old War Correspondent Wythe Williams took over the country editorship of Greenwich Time in Connecticut in 1937. He announced then that he would let Europe have its next war "without assistance from me." But Wythe Williams still had his pipe lines to Europe, has run many an inside yarn from abroad. One that caught the public fancy, and hit U. S. front pages everywhere, was the racy tale in December 1938 of the supposed horsewhipping of amorous little Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels for love-poaching. Editor Williams missed the opening date of war by only three days...
...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...
...feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...
Died. Rosalynd Amper, fortyish, once the toast of Shanghai night-lifers; in an opium den, pipe in hand; in Shanghai. Blonde, lissome Rosalynd Amper began singing in 1923 in Shanghai's Del Monte Cafe, surrounded herself with generous suitors. In 1928 she was maimed in an automobile crash, lost her beauty and her lovers. To get money, she borrowed on the strength of a mythical special delivery letter, which never came but earned her the name of "Special Delivery Rose...