Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confronted with this charge, Cordell Hull was courteous and evasive as usual. But other correspondents were startled to note that for the first time in 18 years of covering the State Department, Bert Hulen was far from his usual peaceful, pipe-puffing self. Plainly irked by the Secretary's evasive generalities, he persistently demanded specific answers. But Mr. Hull would not be pinned down. All he would reveal was that the Department had indeed protested to London about premature leakage of diplomatic news which the two Governments had agreed to release simultaneously...
Joan Fontaine, 27-year-old Hollywoodienne, said she would sue for divorce against pipe-smoking, 42-year-old Brian Aherne within two weeks. Their full-dress wedding was one of the handsomer scenes on Hollywood's 1939 calendar...
...that the boys, who would otherwise have been soundly beaten in the corridor ... be granted a full pardon. Seeing that he had scored his point, he went full out and asked that the whole college be excused from classes for the rest of the day. It was a lead-pipe tactic. The Boss groaned once in his beard and surrendered...
...Lean, grizzled old Lawyer W. S. ("Bud") Taylor sat back from making out income tax returns (at $3 each) and pulled on his pipe. "These boys are really rolling in dough this year. When the Lord gets around to raining on this land, it'll raise anything...
...rarely without a pipe in his mouth, a pencil in his hand and an idea for "a better way" to do whatever is being done. At home, in peacetime, he relaxed by working in a cellar machine shop building boats, driving a tractor on his New Hampshire farm. Now much too busy to indulge his various hobbies, he nonetheless startled his wife this winter by suddenly taking up late evening basket-weaving...