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...President, seated on the forward gun deck of his ship, received the royal visitors as the crew manned the rails, bugle calls sounded and the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe kept all hands standing rigidly at attention...
...young days a woman smoker was looked upon as something evil. For 50 years I have smoked cigarets. Must I now resort to a filthy pipe just so a lot of old ladies who do not really enjoy smoking can do it just to be smart and "show-offy...
...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
Overtime. In South Fallsburg, N.Y., Oilman John Lanahan, working overtime, found he was short of pipe fittings, went to the plumber's to get some, heard the plumber had gone to the movies, followed him there. He arrived in time to hear his own name called for the $200 bank-night prize, quickly claimed the cash for which he had registered the last time he went to the movies, four years...
...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...