Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard and Yale Juniors who are enrolled in Military Science at their respective institutions buried the hatchet, smoked the pipe of peace, and united for six weeks of practical military training at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont this summer. Camp opened on June 27 and the first two weeks were spent in the concurrent camp at Fort Ethan Allen where the formal training was done. The last four weeks were spent deepen into the Green Mountains, under the slopes of Mount Mansfield, where facilities were available for artillery firing and the more practical side of field training. All hands agreed that...
...appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...
...Committeeman Dudley Brown, a 56-year-old Yankee carpenter, who had appointed Mrs. Bucklyn because she had 17 years teaching experience. The School Board and superintendent who had appointed Miss Innes, ruled that Mrs. Bucklyn would get no pay. But Committeeman Brown had possession of the steps, a seasoned pipe between his teeth. When State troopers came around he shooed them...
...Right," said the portly man. "You can tell a Freshman at a glance by the inexperienced manner in which he smokes his pipe, by the fifty per cent way he turns up his coat collar, and by the noise he makes with his friends in public. Right? I used to be a Freshman myself. But let me ask you another question, and that, I promise, is all. What do others at Harvard think of the Freshmen...
...looks, at first glance, like an incredible amount of pied type. Closer inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school teacher, now probably the most loved and certainly the best known man around Allentown...