Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foremost U.S. painters puttered aimlessly about his studio in Madison, Wis., last week, smoking his pipe and gazing out the windows. He was at loose ends and liking it. He was John Steuart Curry, famed painter of his native Midwest, and his rest was well deserved. Painter Curry had just finished two of the biggest painting jobs of his life. Off & on for the past three years, in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, and in the University of Wisconsin's law school, he had been hard at work on the heroic figures and lowering backgrounds...
...June 1), so newspapers and magazines will continue, unless advertising is taxed to death-in fact, in most cases they are officially regarded as strategic morale-builders. Cigarets are being produced in the most enormous, quantities in history (though they are also being taxed at record levels); cigars and pipe tobacco are booming, too. WPB has gone on record as considering that basic cosmetics (powder, rouge, lipstick, cold cream) are "essential"-though favorite brands and esoteric colors and concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys...
...Ramspeck's friends know him as a conscientious worker who shuns social life, stays at home with his pipe and books. Even Georgia Neighbor Gene Cox, with whom Ramspeck has tangled on many a labor bill, praised Neighbor Ramspeck's ability. Pleased, too, was Leader McCormack, of Massachusetts. Said he of Southern Bob Ramspeck: "He has a national mind...
Into U.S.O. fund headquarters in Logansport, Ind., fortnight ago, came two hot, weary young Americans wearing the blue-grey uniform of the R.A.F. One of them, decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, carried a barracks bag; the other, badly in need of a shave, had only his empty pipe for duffle. Could they get a meal...
...forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure...