Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over their drinks, theater people sometimes play a game: they dream up casts for great plays. With opium-pipe prodigality, they sometimes devise a Hamlet in which Lionel Barrymore plays the second gravedigger, a Macbeth in which Tallulah Bankhead plays the third witch. But they know that not only would the cost of such productions be staggering, but collecting all the right people would be a super human feat...
...done so at your own risk and prejudice. It is definitely not your privilege to say that I quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity of the Army is impossible-Flynn has 'athlete's heart.'''. . . My record for "escaping" is in the Army files...
Attention now turned to a man who seemed to some Republicans to be heaven-sent as a compromise candidate: onetime Congressman John B. Hollister. Personable, pipe-smoking John Hollister is from Cincinnati, and it is the Midwest's turn for the chairmanship. He is the law partner of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. At the 1940 convention, he captained the Taft-for-President forces, fought Willkie tooth-&-nail. But afterward he became a director of the Associated Willkie Clubs of America, boarded the campaign train as an aide, was with Willkie constantly from early September until election...
...quiet, austere prose in a leisurely fashion, always followed a set routine which he once described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed pencils from a drawer. . . . What will the first line be? That is the crucial factor in the whole night's work. It is the entrance into the story. . . . Praise God from whom first sentences flow...
...back in the U.S. things were just as baffling. At the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...