Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...
Charles W. Morton, a leisurely, pipe-smoking associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was tired of such newspaper shock-talk...
Blue Eyes. Then into the committee room strode a big, tweedy, pipe-smoking man. He looked like the editor of a college press. He was Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party. Appearing at his own request, he was armed with a 21-page statement. He had scarcely settled himself in his chair before he was in trouble...
...Ajax Cassidy (Peter Donald) is a tuberculous, growler-rushing, clay-pipe Irishman who thinks he is "not long for this worrld." He is also the newest and least-developed of Fred's characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...
...fashioned apartment (sometimes called la boulangerie) in Montmartre was a musical rendezvous of Paris. There, with the framed visages of Liszt, Rubinstein, Beethoven and Stravinsky staring from the walls, students gathered every night to talk, listen, play and, on occasion, eat. The two pianos and pipe organ in the apartment were seldom silent...