Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the business is still wholly owned by the Schwarz family, no Schwarz has been active in its management since 1931. President Veysey, a trim, pipe-smoking Canadian, who learned retailing with New York's B. Altman & Co., carefully maintains the Schwarz tradition. He spends much of his time on the floor chatting with customers, continues to seek out the kind of exclusive toys that built the business. By offering premiums to toymakers, Schwarz gets them to add individualized touches to its toys-a redesigned box or an extra pair of shoes for a doll. The extras, plus...
...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...
Investigating the double bombing, Los Angeles police and FBI agents recovered fragments of galvanized pipe, discovered that detonators had been made from spark plugs and radio switches. The type and technique matched those of recent bombs left outside two Los Angeles buildings. One exploded at the headquarters for the California Communist Party. A dud was discovered at the office of the United Nations Association. Said Police Inspector Ed Walker: "It could be a nut. Or somebody with a real cause...
...built highway runs west from Quinhon, but at one village, where the road cuts across a field, the drainage pipe was placed too high. Thus one side of the road is drowned while the other is parched, ruining 24 acres of the village's skimpy fields. The peasants are certain that the Americans would fix the pipe if they knew about it. But how does a peasant reach the Americans? Who would listen...
...Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load of Dino on a horse...