Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even if the money were forthcoming, the materials would be tough to get hold of. Where, off-hand, could the University pick up 9 1/2 miles of wrought-iron pipe (the necessary amount for a 190- by 85-foot rink)? New refrigerating processes make it likely that the University could buy up an old refrigerating plant of some commercial rink which is converting, but in spite of this lucky break, the pipe situation still is unsolved. Nine and one-half miles is an awful lot of pipe; especially with government restrictions on materials...
...most knowledge of technique," says Roethke, "is acquired obliquely. One suggestion, one lead, after class or in the hall... is worth far more than any number of pipe-sucking, pencil-poking . . . sessions in the office." The fact is, "most teaching is visceral ... as ephemeral as the dance ... It is what is left after all the reading and thinking and reciting: the residue, the illumination...
...Angeles. The take, including record royalties, is $350,000 a year. The musicians, most of whom have been with Les five to ten years, earn around $10,000 apiece, and are settled family men with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first...
...simple coffin of oak cut from the forests nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across the meadows and through the woods went...
Piper's Pay. In Manchester, England, Kenneth Simpson went to jail for three months for stealing a lead pipe in order to raise money to pay a month-old fine for stealing a lead pipe...