Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buyer. Donald Nelson is 52, a big, mild man with shoulders like goal posts and an appetite for hard work, long hours and a pipe that smells like an unfrequented sulphur sink in Yellowstone Park. Son of a Hannibal, Mo. locomotive engineer (as a boy he saw Hannibal's first citizen, Mark Twain, explored Tom Sawyer's cave), Nelson worked his way through the University of Missouri waiting on tables, where he studied human nature by observing the reactions of students on whom he spilled hot gravy...
...comers. A weekend high-gos golfer, he holds a long-distance (not accuracy) driving record at Chicago's Bob O'Link Golf Club; he is said to have the longest, most exasperating hook outside a Wodehouse story. He smokes cigars, cigarets, and his huge fumigatory pipe, drinks Scotch highballs, dieted 20 Ib. off before going to Washington, has eaten them back on with interest. He hates exercise, said recently: "The only exercise I take now is walking in the funeral processions of friends who died from too much...
Sometimes in the afternoon, Dr. Carlson goes to the Quadrangle (faculty) Club on the campus to smoke his pipe and play bridge. He plays a most unscientific game, but usually has plenty to say to his partner after a losing hand. Often his colleagues could cheerfully strangle him, for he stifles all bridge table chat. If someone drops an irrelevant remark, he raises his head and barks an equivalent of his famous: "Vot iss de effidence...
...side of the heaviest battalions, but both sides always claim Him. Last week smooth, pudgy, pipe-smoking Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, who has never lacked for grandiloquence, issued a gloomy New Year's message which set a new high for God-claiming, seemed to assign the deity a position at the side of, and somewhat inferior to, Yosuke Matsuoka himself...
...moment he knew fear, then he lit his pipe and poured himself a whiskey...