Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what were the original motives of the founders of the Academy Awards back in 1928, but even the most casual observer of Hollywood can see that it is today nothing more than a crass publicity device which even a solemn-toned, pipe-smoking, God-fearing President like lovable, old Jean Hersholt can not conceal. (And I want it understood that I am not saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn...
...tweeds, sucking on his pipe, or a cigarette, or a cigar-whatever came to hand-grey-haired, paunchy and tentatively smiling, the graduate of Franklin High School moved into the darkness of top leadership. The ancient William Foster was made chairman-actually, a secondary job. Eugene Dennis, as general secretary, became the little commissar...
...Eugene Dennis, a tall, tweedy, pipe-smoking young man, showed up in the Communist circles of Milwaukee with his pretty brunette wife, "Peggie." Timothy was not with them. So far as any records show, Timothy was, never brought back...
Browder was kicked out of the party. Just to keep him on ice, Moscow commissioned him to act as an agent in the U.S. for Soviet publishers. In a one-room office on 42nd Street, he smoked his pipe and stared into space, loyally mumbling the line that the assassination of his character was only an "incidental of a political struggle." It was as close to accuracy as Comrade Browder ever...
...suits & coats from $19.95 to $38.95 and women's dresses from $2.95 to $10.95. Their low overhead is a fact: they are in the cheapest possible quarters. By slashing markup to the bone, clothing is sold the way supermarkets sell groceries. Customers simply grab what they want from pipe-racks, pay cash and carry their purchases away...