Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others. Our "stove pipe" is a steel drum at least 24 in. in diameter. We frequently use an inflator. Also we seldom use poles any more. We use a gin pole in the inside till the bag is selfsupporting. We have put on a great many ascensions, playing large fairs and expositions. We played the Tennessee...
...their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes...
Rufus Dawes smokes his pipe right side up. An able public speaker, he dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...
...golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always English ballads. A son, Arthur Gibb, attends Cambridge. A daughter. Dorothy Frances, is at Skidmore College...
...save prices, some refused to be constricted. Some went to law, got injunction after injunction against the proration orders of the Texas Railroad Commission. While the courts were voiding orders and the Commission making new ones, the rough & tumble crowd in East Texas took other means. They constructed secret pipe connections, they enlarged valves, to ''steal their own oil." Mr. Holmes estimated that 75,000,000 bbl. of "hot" oil were taken out illegally in 15 months-nearly half of it in Texas. Early in April the output of the East Texas field, supposedly around...