Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and Charles Steele of J. P. Morgan) did not enter the board room until he led the way, always greeted him with "How do you do, Mr. President?", did not smoke at meetings. (He smoked cigars only on proper occasions, sometimes a pipe while riding in his Packard.) In Chicago, his headquarters, he lived modestly in a 20-year-old apartment building. No. 199 Lake Shore Drive (where the Insulls lived years ago), walked down every morning to his office on Jackson Boulevard, lunched daily at the exclusive Chicago Club at what used...
...both. Last fortnight two St. Paul judges chose jail, ordered Mrs. Clark to begin her term one day last week. She did not appear. Three days later a farmer found the Clark family's bodies huddled in their tightly-shut automobile, a hose in from the exhaust pipe...
While the President was off cruising, M. Herriot arrived in Washington, took up quarters at the Mayflower Hotel, awaited his turn at the White House. When asked about international currency stabilization, he packed his pipe while replying: "I'm interested in anything that will keep the price of my tobacco stable-and I have probably said too much at that...
...Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit...
...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...