Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated to arouse in audiences a mixture of amazement and despair...
When he was 33 Arthur Stimson Draper was sent to London as chief of the New York Tribune's European bureaus. Result is that, at 52, Brooklyn-born Arthur Draper sports a Guards mustache, fancies burly tweeds, puffs a briar pipe, boasts a son educated at Cambridge and is a firm believer in Tradition. Consequently his colleagues on the Herald Tribune, to which he had returned as assistant editor, were somewhat surprised when in 1933 Mr. Draper took over the editorship of The Literary Digest with the announcement: "Its columns offer unusual opportunities at this time of profound change...
...average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman...
...Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving...
Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...