Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the enormous wealth he acquired through sales of his stories, Wodehouse remained a man of simple pleasures. Like one of his most famous characters, the lovable bachelor-vagabond Bertie Wooster, happiness for Wodehouse meant comfortable slippers, a good pipe, and a well-mixed highball...
...three vendors on the corner of 28th and Bank, and the latest arrival, a punk who dreams of opening a restaurant in an abandoned firehouse, wants to join forces on the project with the middle-aged cookie lady. "What a crust! What a crunch!" he cries, wooing her. The pipe dream is shattered by the pompous detergent vendor, and in a "cathartic" climax the cookie lady smushes pies into his and the punk's face. Throwing food really means something in the bourgeois theatre with all these half-eaten cookie characters...
...WIFE, Linda, participates unconsciously in perpetuating Willy's delusions; she pretends not to know his salary has been slashed to the bone and that he borrows money from a friend each week to bring her a "salary." She does not confront him with the rubber pipe he hides in the basement and doesn't tell him she knows he wants to kill himself with it. Linda chastizes ungrateful Biff when he rebels; he is trying to shake off the chains of his father's beliefs about him. "You wretch! You don't know, but I'll tell you! That...
...publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave stout Republican speeches at Republican conventions, puffed on his pipe and wrote some rather mellow reminiscences, including a volume on trout fishing...
...leans back in her chair and muses about the Depression era, and for the moment she seems not at all the assertive Hepburn the press portrays her as--the one you see marching around the House floor, but rather like a grandmother. Only her pipe adulterates the image. She likes to reminesce, for instance, about the good old days when the family Packard was the big thing, or the time she hitchhiked through Texas...