Word: pipeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...
...timers will recall with a smile the production of the following fall. Percy MacKaye's "The Scarecrow." Based on a tale of Hawthorne, it was a fantasy of a scarecrow who could be made to come to life and who could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once...
...with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National Sugar Corp. On his 205-ft. Diesel yacht The Lotosland he has a pipe organ, a seaplane tender...
...Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which he holds the position of "tibia plena," he designed the "diplomy...
...human performer out of doors." When Mr. Barnes assured Sir Richard that there was no spoofing, the learned acoustician cocked his ears at all corners & crannies of the bathroom at Angmering-on-Sea. The overflow drain of the bathtub told the story. Next morning Sir Richard examined the pipe. It was about 1 1/6 in. in diameter, about 3 ft. 5 in. long, in the form of an S-bend. At the tub end of the tube was a perforated waste guard. The other end of the tube was open and passed through the wall to let the tub water...