Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
...Pipe. Promise of solving the distance problem lies in the "coaxial cable" developed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Consisting essentially of a pair of copper tubes with a bare wire running through the centre of each, this cable can transmit 240 telephone messages or 20 to 40 telegrams simultaneously and was primarily designed for such purposes. But it can also handle a radio frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied...
Meanwhile at the Museum Director Barr gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...
Whipped to a frenzy during Holy Week, the brothers assemble on Good Friday, each band with a lucky one chosen to be the Cristo. To the thin wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...
...picture. It takes place during a scream-jag riot fomented by a rat released from its cage, which is a device we should not have thought of ourselves. Instead of jumping into the ocean, as most escape heroines do, Jean Harlow crawls with her two companions through a drainage pipe. And when one of them is shot by a guard, she does not murmur with her last breath, "Good luck, Jean." "Riffraff" is worthy of the highest compliment a critic can give; it is not over done...