Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intently listening to music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...some ways near geniuses are more stupid. From the same unbalance suffer individuals, mobs, nations, races. With these as building blocks Author Pitkin gradually erects a Katzenjammer Kastle of the human race. One of its foundation-stones is the Pittsburgh citizen, now dead, who encouraged his smouldering pipe with kerosene; a large block of the Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems always able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt...
...Coffman foretold many uses for his felt-steel roofing and sidings for buildings, pipe lining, paneling, fireproofing. When struck the material does not ring like steel, an advantage in a decibel-conscious...
...years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement, is of prime concern to the bankers who underwrote...
...weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...