Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco 17 years ago. During the winter, Champion Londos wrestles three times a week, makes about $250,000 a year. This season he has defended his title 207 times. He lives in St. Louis, eats enormously, maintains a library of 1,200 volumes, takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe...
From Indiana to Jersey, In Mexico: 1,500,000 acres of oil land (principally in the Tampico territory), 750 mi. of pipe lines, 65 mi. of railroads. In Venezuela: 3,100,000 acres of oil & gas land in the Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana...
...this old world murk the Vagabond stepped into the warm and well lit splendor of a shop. He was in Dunhill's and he was to buy a pipe--a straight grained pipe for all the world to see. He looked about him. In a far corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded...
...clerk interrupted. Yes he would like something, a pipe, a straight grained pipe. What was the fellow gazing at him for. He repeated, "a straight grained pipe." Come, come, such a house as Dunhill's must have heard of a wood with a straight grain. They had. Worse they had a waiting list for those who wanted them. Would be have his name entered? The Duke of Peterborough, Lord Lounsbury, Earl of Ludgate, Lord Gray of Shasta and Mount Hellicon, The Vagabond. No he thought not. He was rather sure not. No, he really didn't need or require...
...very poor pipe for four and six which he lost on the boat coming home. But he had learned what make the English a great, comfortable, contented, conservative nation. Their love of things, their rare ability to love old wines, and high game, and fine linens, and burnished silver, and blended tobacco, and grained woods. Their ability to enjoy and worship the things the Lord has provided in His infinite wisdom which seem small and trivial and unimportant, but which are also great, and necessary and almost terrible in their absence...