Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overtime. In South Fallsburg, N.Y., Oilman John Lanahan, working overtime, found he was short of pipe fittings, went to the plumber's to get some, heard the plumber had gone to the movies, followed him there. He arrived in time to hear his own name called for the $200 bank-night prize, quickly claimed the cash for which he had registered the last time he went to the movies, four years...
...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...
...things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
Three Little Words. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets...
...their lives endangered, are nervous and miserable and want girls. Since they can't have them, they smoke cigarets. The girls at home . . . their virtue not endangered, are nervous and miserable and want boys. Since they can't have them, they too smoke cigarets. So what happens? The briar pipe resumes its rightful place as the companion of the philosophic male whose gonadal preoccupations have vanished with the years...