Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three Little Pigs, was not required to compose new music for The Big Bad Wolf. The piglets still pipe the tune by which 1933 will be remembered though by now they should be as tired of it as the rest of the U. S. The wolf, an equally good entertainer, has no song at all. No Greater Glory (Columbia), adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel Paul Street Boys...
That afternoon Sir Arthur had been interviewed by newsmen who found his reticence almost impenetrable. He answered questions in hesitant monosyllables between puffs at his pipe. But now, speaking to 2,000 auditors, he was self-assured, whimsical, almost pontifical...
...Akron, O., Marvin Shearer, 70, surveyed with pride a timepiece he had completed after ten years. Big as a horse-van, more ornate than a cathedral altar, the monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...
Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...
...left a law chair at Pennsylvania to go to Washington. Now 40 and an intellectual in a government of intellectuals, he has proved one of the most moderate of the Washington professors. In conference he lectures in his best pontifical manner, but in his office he puffs a corncob pipe, swings his feet to the desk...