Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputed to dig too deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart...
...King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were...
Stronger Sinclair. Apparently planning tremendous expansion, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. last week girded itself for corporate frays. First of the preparatory steps was announcement that stock-holders of Sinclair, joint owner with Standard Oil Co. of Indiana of Sinclair Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., will vote on proposed sale to Standard of its interest in these two companies for $72,500,000 cash. Significant was the comment of Chairman Harry Ford Sinclair regarding this deal: "Conditions with respect to the position of your company have radically changed since the partnership with the Standard Oil Company...
Although reports that Sinclair Oil will soon be a world-wide organization, tilting full force with the Standard group and Shell, are probably exaggerated, it is known that Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co. and Tide Water Associated Oil Co. have been approached by Sinclair, may be acquired...