Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like a snarling, wounded panther, outraged Catholic France crouched ready to spring upon its enemies. Indeed, its attitude was so menacing that it was difficult to see how pipe-puffing, anticlerical Premier Herriot could survive its pounce; and if he does, it can certainly be predicted that his way will be short and beset with thorns...
Lord Crewe, the British Ambassador, half turned in his seat, propped his head on the table with one hand, tugged his moustache with the other, gazed expectantly at the Marshal. The other Ambassadors and Ministers sprawled in restful positions. Premier Herriot puffed his pipe...
...ambulance, a fire engine, or even a patrol wagon? Of course it is rather hard to keep up an appearance of dignity while swinging on the back end of a hook and ladder, but who could have guessed the identity of such a daring passenger, unless the Dawes pipe had been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington would have been startled to see the Vice-President peering anxiously through the bars of a Black Maria...
Skehen removed his short clay pipe and gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
...taken. Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House. He gave the word to Attorney General Knox. First there were investigations and publicity, then prosecutions. One after another, trusts were knocked on the head and compelled to disintegrate. In 1904 and 1905, the Northern Securities, the Beef Trust, the Addyston Pipe Co. were dispatched. Later came the Standard Oil case (which lasted for five years before the company lost and was dissolved) and the American Tobacco Co. case...