Word: piping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy. Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better results. An advertising man who finds his conversation witty gives him a job. Presently Bruce Foster has a large suite of offices. He has mastered the technic of "fear copy," which he uses...
...salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than...
...other day a Dartmouth freshman came to call. He lived down the street and his home-coming in June had been a pretty big event in the village. He came up on the veranda in a white shirt and white fiannels, smoking a pipe...
...drew moistly on the pipe...
...matter of fact," he said, pointing the stem of the pipe at me, "did you know a couple can live on twenty-five dollars a week at first, if they economize...