Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Construction and installation jobs would employ 10,000 men for two years. ¶ Required would be 125.000 tons of steel, five miles of anchor chain, 45 miles of cable, five 1,500-ton anchors, large quantities of electric equipment, radio apparatus, beacons, pipe, fittings, etc., etc. ¶ Airline operators would order $10,000,000 worth of new planes for trans-atlantic service as soon as work was begun on the dromes...
...bitten off and cannot chew is that of a family waiting for an old lady to die and leave them her $200,000. They wait 15 years while the old ogress, who never appears on the stage, clings to life in her room upstairs, taps signals on a steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often. The grandson (Paul Guilfoyle) and his fiancee (Linda Watkins) are frustrated when the matriarch will not let him go to medical school; the granddaughter, prevented from marrying her garageman, sneaks...
...late Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke and John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein could not be induced to appear. Later he changed his mind, let three cameramen photograph...
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...eagerness . . . to support the President and his program of recovery we must, nevertheless, keep our eyes in those who would use this emergency to put across selfish schemes as well as on those accidentally elevated to high places who would try to out on a confiding and distressed people pipe dreams with which their muddled minds are troubled...