Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...Frenchmen the invitation might seem like another sign of France's new standing among the big powers. It was certainly another example of the smartness of Russian diplomacy. But the pipe-smoker in the Kremlin was not merely being polite...
These are the words of Lieutenant (j.g.) Don Forte, 1942 Crimson football captain and star end, recently back from the European theatre of war. Tall and slim, in navy blue, black-haired, with smouldering pipe in hand, he is quiet and serious, though still as rugged as when he was leading the Crimson to victory under Dick Harlow...
...used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet, aromatic pipe tobacco, please.' Or a pack of those little cigars. Or a box of snuff. Then they pop the stuff in their handbags quick, spin around and beat...
...gate was Walcheren Island, north of the Scheldt estuary that leads to Antwerp. There some 7,000 bitter-ending Germans held fast: they had to be eliminated before the Allies could send ships in to the port. By land Walcheren could be reached only by a causeway from the pipe-shaped peninsula of South Beveland, but the Germans were holding that bottleneck with murderous fire. The Allied solution: a seaborne attack...