Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trotting race at the end constitute all the dramatic action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
First race. Miguel Barella, captain of the Spanish team, failed to get his motor going in time to start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...
...below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
Merton Little, the fraternity's janitor for ten years, discovered the broken pipe when he tramped in at 6:30 a. m. to stir the fire. Muttering angrily, he picked up the pieces, fitted them back in place. He had told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows...
...been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...