Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chambers in Ohio's capital. Honest John kept shaking hands all around, passed out cigars. But as the night faded so did the merriment. When Dewey's statement came over the radio, Bricker sat staring at the wall, his teeth clamped hard on his pipe. Twenty-five minutes later, he too conceded defeat. When his term as governor expires Jan. 8, friends expect that John Bricker will go into private law practice...
Walker went on to tell how General MacArthur got his first view of the Philippines-"a gun-rocked coast backed by rolling hills. He saw it from a cruiser standing in to shore an hour after the landings, sitting placidly on the flag bridge puffing his pipe...
...slept well, eaten a hearty breakfast. Now with his corncob pipe he pointed over the glassy, green waters of Leyte (rhymes with 8-A) Gulf, where rode the greatest fleet ever assembled in the South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed...
Died. Kitty Marion, 71, redheaded, red-tempered suffragette and birth controller; in Manhattan. She ran away from her German home at 15 (her father used to beat her over the head with his pipe), went on the stage, turned reformer, was jailed eight times, in 13 years hawked 99,000 copies of the Birth Control Review on Manhattan streets, was called by Margaret Sanger the "Rock of Gibraltar...
Instructions and Decisions. For the better part of a year Hawks worked her out mainly in a vacant lot, bellowing anything from Shakespeare to odd copies of shopping news. In the fullness of time Hawks had achieved his purpose: he had developed her voice from "a high nasal pipe to a low guttural wheeze." He instructed her now to speak softly and naturally, paying no attention to the traditional voice-culture style which he surrealistically compares with "digging post-holes...