Word: piping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself with watching the smoke float ceilingwards. Sentimentalism is rather apt to get the upper hand at such moments and it is all too easy for an old fellow to become roseate. So the Vagabond has kept busy with his lectures and his books and left sessions with a pipe to Old Mother Advocate who has been addicted to such whims these many years...
...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...
...Prairie Pipe Line...
...working in the mines. Once, during a shutdown, he studied stenography. A few years later his brother, a Philadelphia telegrapher, obtained work for him as a stenographer and usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned how to read blueprints. Six months later he went to work for a cement firm. By 1906, when he was 22, he was making $125 a month, had helped bring his parents to Philadelphia...
...final echo of the military tramp of last week's welcome visitors will be swallowed up this afternoon when the Dartmouth Indians' war whoop fills the Stadium. It is always a pleasant sight to find the men from New Hampshire again in town with their pipe of peace. The tradition of the Dartmouth game is not new; but it is still young enough to stimulate plenty of enthusiasm on both sides...