Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grasping relatives had insured them for a total of nearly $100,000, and given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...
...Graphic's original plan was no pipe dream but a solidly considered plan of rapid transit. It suggested that the city utilize the drained Miami & Erie canal for the underground mileage, cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...happen to be present when the reporter took Dr. Goulden's picture. Apparently he was on deck and had the inhalation apparatus strapped on over his face and, as there was no oxygen connected up to the apparatus, he probably unconsciously put the pipe in his mouth. It is one of those thoughtless little incidents that can happen when one is not perfectly conversant with oxygen and the impossibility of having fire of any type in its neighborhood...
...dark, who liked to sit at Vag's desk and write in those great red and black law notchooks. Next came Phil who worked just as hard as Gregory, but he seemed to enjoy it a little more. He would sink deep into the armchair, suck on his pipe which was seldom lit, and nod at the thick volume propped up on his knees. Sometimes it was hard to tell if he was asleep or just reading...
...things that depress U. S. liberal churchmen is that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers...