Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
...five years the two worked at cross purposes, Piper plugging for cheap mass production, Taylor for experimental engineering techniques. By 1936 they had turned out 333 planes, made no money. Weary of quarreling, losing his money, Planeman Piper bought out his partner for $5,000. With his three Harvard sons...
Kate Field proved to be a very desirable Communicator. She was simple, direct, and able, just as she was when where. In her first communication, at a seance of Mrs. Piper, she at once announced. "I am Kate Field." Nothing could have been more characteristic. The National Spiritualist...
Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...
...illusion, the cuts appear as bas-relief. Steuben's skilled craftsmen took the commissioned artists' sketches, blew and engraved every piece by hand. Prices ranged from $400 for Jean Hugo's classical urn with centaur and unicorn to $1,000 for Henri Matisse's Oriental piper...