Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horrible prospect." Vag was sitting idly in the Widener Reading Room, where he occasionally came to sleep off a hangover. "I suppose in the long run it'll do me good, but it's still a terrible fate to have to contemplate," he cogitated as he pulled out his pipe, lit up, and disregarding the scandalized stares of the surrounding inmates, took in a long drag of the sweet-tasting smoke...
...what they mean by softness," he shouted at the top of his lungs; and the inmates looked up in alarm, each one putting his finger on the page of his book so as not to lose his place. "This," shrieked Vag, almost forgetting his hangover as he dashed his pipe to the floor. "Away, you manifestation of an era of physical and intellectual decadence," he shouted as he stamped on the offending briar. "That's what I am. I'm soft, flabby, weak. Remember Pearl Harbor...
After the meal, while dishes rattled in the kitchen, Farmer Delair smoked the new pipe his wife gave him for a Valentine. As the sky grew lighter, he went outside with son Ralph Jr., who had stayed home from Ople High School to help Hired Hand James Dieker...
...sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...