Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next room Picasso takes up approximately where Cezanne left off. His Small Composition and a drawing, Head with Pipe, are comparatively early and in many ways as pure as the Cezannes. The two still-lifes of the twenties, controlled but more exuberant and a fuller statement of the personality, are another story...
Laying in a heavy stock of his favorite pipe tobacco for what looked likely to be a lengthy siege, white-maned United Steelworkers' President David John McDonald last week set down his price for peace in steel: "More!" Among other things, McDonald's 171-man wage and policy committee asked for "substantial wage increases, modernized cost-of-living adjustments, a shorter work week, additional holidays, greater vacation benefits and improved supplemental unemployment benefits, insurance benefits, pensions...
...believable world of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, must be impeccable in both manner and dialogue. Edward Finnegan, the Stage Manager in the Charles Players' production is all this and more, and most of the play's success can be attributed to his well-timed gestures of hat and pipe and his thoroughly "North of Boston" accent...
James Thurber's pipe-dreaming hero never imagined himself conducting a symphony orchestra, but thousands of his spiritual prototypes have. To accommodate them, RCA Victor last week issued a package that encourages the hi-fi fan to do his armchair conducting openly and with proper equipment, rather than furtively with a pencil. The package: Music for Frustrated Conductors, complete with instructions manual and a 16¾-in. baton...
...designed to broadcast its voice over thousands of miles of empty space. Near it was what looked like a cylinder of dirty pink soap. It was plastic foam, encasing apparatus that might be destined to orbit the sun until the end of the solar system. Puffing on a battered pipe, Van Allen peered, commented, sketched an idea for a new circuit, then was summoned to take a long-distance call from the Army's rocket lab in Huntsville, Ala. So the day began...