Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was rated the British Empire's No.1 cigar consumer (three an hour for 18 hours out of every 24). Said the rater, the pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.: "What he doesn't smoke, he eats...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...
Stuff & Things. Venus Fixer DeWald, a softspoken, pipe-smoking ex-professor of art history at Princeton, was an infantry officer in World War I. Colonel DeWald has followed on the heels of advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what...
Spark plugs of FAO in its birthing period were Canada's able Ambassador to Washington, Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, and jolly, pipe-smoking Frank Lidgett McDougall, an Australian often called "the father of nutrition" because of his long efforts to make that study a science. McDougall incessantly deplores economic nationalism, is determined to do his best to internationalize eating...
...Esso incendiary is a 6½ lb., 19 in. length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads destruction much faster...