Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-grey eyes behind rimless glasses, and a mustache which (though he boasts "I haven't had a clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When he does, he golfs or bowls a bit, but he prefers to gather his family at the piano...
...skirl of bagpipes, which has long lifted the hackles of Scottish fighters, has so stirred U.S. Marines stationed in Londonderry that they have formed their own pipe band. With chanters & drones and drums, such Scots-by-sentiment as Privates Chartowich, Ritz and Rozelle have practiced pibrochs and set to the pipes the Marine's own Semper Fidelis...
Thirty strong, the unkilted but undaunted band made its first public appearance on the anniversary of the Corps's landing in Northern Ireland, tootled, thumped and groaned through Oh, Susanna! and Garryowen. Last week the Marine pipers swelled with pride as well as wind: Scottish pipe band associations had invited them over to participate in their contests; they were also billed as the star attraction at a Wings for Victory bond rally at Larne, Northern Ireland...
...summers on a Vermont farm where he can swim and chop wood and write, if his own two children were not rather young, he would make a wonderful grandfather. He has forgotten his age; he looks at you straightforwardly with kindly, maybe even twinkling eyes; he smokes a pipe while he talks; and once there was even the massive bound lying near the study door...
When Tommy Beecham was born, in 1879, the elaborate Beecham home, in St. Helens near Liverpool, already contained an assortment of pianos and pipe organs. Beecham père soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round. Tommy listened to it by the hour, vowed he would devote his life to music. Beecham's Pills made possible a musical education at home and abroad. Tommy learned much as accompanist to the late great French baritone Victor Maurel. But the pills were not always an unmixed blessing. When...