Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Nominee Hoover, who is none too fond of newsgatherers, apostrophized "those invisible millions," the radio audience, it was perhaps with the hope that some day a Nominee's baby-patting, pipe-smoking and flycasting will not have to be overseen by newsgatherers clutching shorthand pads and cinema cranks. Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face...
...miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them to descend, the impact smashing the plane's wings. The duo, swimming near the disabled plane, were immediately rescued by the crew of the Samos. They had described a giant arc over the Atlantic; with a minimum cruising speed of 90 miles per hour, they must...
...Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River Valley; to Medford, Ore.; to Hornbrook, Calif., on the Klamath River; then back to San Francisco by rail, and by motor to Palo Alto again. In the spectacular Redwood country the Nominee sat by a camp fire, told stories, smoked a pipe. Cameramen begged for a "shot" of the pipe. "I am sorry," said the Nominee, "but a pipe is personal to the smoker and I would rather not." At a stop en route, the Nominee was asked how the roads were. "They're afflicted with that French
Died. John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips, 54, alleged sewer pipe monopolist of Queens Co., N. Y., indicted for conspiracy to defraud New York City of some $8,000,000, and the U. S. of $1,376,134 in back taxes & penalties (TIME, Jan. 2, et seq.); of kidney trouble; at Atlantic City...
...year ago it was expensively announced that an ancient peddler in South Africa had told a thrilling life story, and the announcement has since been repeated with excerpts and illustrations-"Trader Horn" heavily bearded, chugging a pipe; the same man, less bearded, dragging Cecil Rhodes from the jaws of a crocodile. Critics cavilled, questioned the veracity of many incidents, doubted this man had experienced them all. Whether his narrator's instinct consciously prompted the use of the first person, or whether in his senility he confused hearsay with his own experience, or whether he actually experienced the myriad thrilling...