Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British reserve, there are times when he seems almost inarticulate. As Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford, he used to crouch on a low seat, leaving the fire and the talk to his guests, moving only when one or the other needed fuel. He has the reticence of the confirmed pipe smoker, for the British often use their pipes as stoppers to save them the trouble of opening their mouths, even choosing the slowest tobaccos to keep them quiet. In a series of Oxford dialogues which appear in his Let Dons Delight, Knox makes a personal appearance, but his remarks...
Robinson was happy at Harvard, if a bit of a social duffer. Women terrified him (he was to remain a bachelor all his life), and he felt that dancing lowered a man's "natural dignity." Painfully shy, he preferred to "smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold...
Locally, the new Route blanche highway will bring together in trade the Chamonix valley on the French side of the mountain and the Aosta valley on the Italian. Aosta hydroelectric projects will be able to pipe power cheaply to France through the tunnel; snowslides make it impracticable to run high tension cables over the Alps...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel one morning last week, tweedy David Sinton Ingalls lit up his pipe, grinned at the politicians gathered in his room and called the meeting to order. For twelve hours, the top men in Bob Taft's campaign sat in solemn conclave, point by point, then laid plans for Taft trips to the South, the Northwest and Texas, agreed on strategy for this month's meeting of the G.O.P. National Committee, and decided to enter their candidate in the Illinois primaries...
...bony man who peered warmly at the world through spectacles, talked much, and puffed a pipe for punctuation. "I'm birdlike, yes," he would say, "but so is the American eagle." He painted steadily until death, because that was his chief joy and also because he knew he still had a lot to learn about painting. A born teacher, he never stopped studying: "I am just a student, chewing on a bone...