Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
Besides the full domestic (and foreign) news service of the Associated Press, TIME has a heavy-duty pipe line into Washington, the nation's and the world's greatest news capital. In Washington we have a bureau staffed with 14 full-time correspondents and 31 assistants. Other major U.S. news centers are similarly covered: we have 19 full-time correspondents (and scores of backers-up) in ten more news bureaus in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle-and New York City...
...simply furnished, two-room Manhattan office sat a tired-looking, greying man. Leaning back in his chair, he puffed on his pipe, leafed through a magazine, occasionally looked out the window at the drab court below. Earl Browder, onetime boss of U.S. Communists, looked like any little businessman waiting for customers...
Later, one Frederick Willis, an Edwardian survivor who accredited himself as "an old silk-hatter familiar with all the Great Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist...