Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood film sequence in which he was required to puff a pipe made non-smoker Will Rogers so ill that production had to stop until some cubebs (medicinal cigarets used for asthma) could be procured...
...With the cigaret and pipe apparently as much a part of wearing apparel as shirts and cravats, why are no photographs ever published showing a President in the act of smoking...
...spite of his spectacular name, he has sponsored no radical legislation, has sought no spotlight. In Washington he and his wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...
...duty. The secretary has to enter the room without a word, write down in complete silence what Stalin says, and leave the room without saying anything. When some matter of unusual importance is under consideration Stalin walks about the room as he dictates, puffing at his pipe-an old habit that has remained with him from the time when he used to be in prison...
...buxom German housemaid, trapped by the flames, was coaxed by Jackson to slide precariously down a drain pipe...