Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctor In? In Manhattan's Central Park Zoo the chimpanzee Joe suffered a toothache, cooled it off by unscrewing his cage's water pipe connection, thus attracted his trainer's attention, pointed to the aching tooth, had it extracted with a pair of pliers...
Chickens on the Third Floor. Pipe-smoking Publisher Nicholson* has been all over the newspaper shop. He started as a newsboy, later reported for the Richmond (Ind.) Item, was a youthful foreign correspondent after World War I, managed the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo, cleaned up the New York Graphic. He and David E. Smiley own the Tampa Times...
Points & Views Brigadier General Frank Merrill, jungle-wise commander of Merrill's Marauders, took time out in Burma to read a letter from the Human Engineering Society of Newark, NJ. Enclosed with a photograph showing the General smoking a pipe was a plea that he and his raiders, as an example to American youth, abstain from smoking...
...Early Kentish Brass Rubbings' entitle you to the Pocahontas Mixture vacation offer, whereby you retire at sixty with most of your faculties impaired." He tells how a Mr. Bradley was drowned in his cellar with his wife and family ("I should have specified Sumwenco Super-Annealed Brass Pipe throughout [but] at least . . . under the Central American Mutual Perpetual Amortizational Group Insurance Plan our loved ones need not be reduced to penury...
Family Troubles. Editor and author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...