Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whoops Rome claimed "enormous fires that could be seen at a great distance." Caustically Cairo replied that there had been no casualties and little damage, that only four planes had appeared. From San Francisco, Standard of California confirmed the British report, said only a water main and an oil pipe had been damaged...
...Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...
...these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors. No report was ever made public by the Guild, but several months later Central had a new manager in blond, pipe-smoking Howard Philbrick, a former G-man who had made a name for himself in California with an investigation of graft in the State Legislature. Philbrick quietly set up a watchdog system over his underlings, announced he would make no radical changes in Central's methods until the Standing...
...home-spun story. "Our Town" reveals itself as if written to order for the Repertory. Director Pettet is the perfect Stage Manager. He doesn't have to act; his part is the one he lives and works in his capacity as leader of the company. With corncob pipe in mouth and a copy of the play in hand, he takes the audience by the arm and points out the simple charms of Grover's Corners. He introduce the Gibb's and the Webbs; Joe Crowell, the paper boy; Howie Newsome, the milkman. He shows you Simno Stimson, the drunkard organist...
...Russell is unapproachable only in his special philosophical stratosphere. When the conversation moves to a mundane level, he loses his air of disconcerting coolness and begins to laugh, finger his horn-rimmed glasses and bite his pipe...