Word: piping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive and must be wood in quiet places, not commardeered by signing one's name six times. In the country thoughts come rythmically, easily, and smoking an old pipe is like a forgotten pleasure suddenly discovered...
...more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
...Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok; his stepdaughter. Mrs. John Charles Martin and her husband, his newspaper-publishing partner. Two days later the great pipe organ downstairs on which Mr. Curtis liked to improvise for a few minutes before breakfast (sitting on a special stool because he was short), breathed the strains of "Hymn to the Night" while the Men's Singing Club of Portland sang the words: ''Softly now the light...
...instalment which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure in The Play's the Thing and Petticoat Influence...
...chair-man of the Mercer County commission. Last March he declined appointment as State Emergency Relief Director. His biggest job in the past year was the survey Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton to make of New Jersey's Government. With 20 assistants, large, rough-haired, pipe-smoking Dr. Dodds worked four months without missing a class or lecture, turned in a 150,000-word report showing how savings of $14,000,000 could be made in the State's $50,000,000 budget...