Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drove through their cities, after the War, clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend at his snug little house, 138 Rue de Grenelle, Paris...
...race. When the comparative times for each lap had been computed to a decimal point it was clear that the race had been very exciting. The course was 217 miles (350 kilometres). The high wires snored. The crowd vibrated like a church window shaken by an organ pipe. They discovered that Lieutenant C. F. Shilt, U. S. M. C., flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain...
Togo. Though he lay abed last week, it is not long since Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, short even for a Japanese, shy even for a hero, sat often in his garden of a morning, puffing his little silver pipe in the solitude which he loves...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Philadelphia publisher (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) : "Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) announced that I had promised it a pipe organ for its chapel, and a swimming pool. At Portland, Me., my birthplace, the municipal organ is a gift from me (TIME, July 19) in memory of the man for whom I am named, Hermann Kotzschmar, onetime bandleader of Dresden, Germany, church organist in Portland 1849-1909. A few years ago Bowdoin College conferred upon me an honorary degree...
...that he owed all he was to his mother. But it is a cruel truth that she was chiefly remarkable as a very human, cantankerous old lady, who, from being a fond taskmaster in her early motherhood, evolved into a trial to everybody. She seems to have smoked a pipe incessantly. George never smoked...