Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
After Göring's suicide, elaborate theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, now a gaffer of 79, emerged briefly from latter-day obscurity when a news photographer snapped him at a Cambridge University ceremony. Only faintly discernible now were the once famed features of England's burly, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...