Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery of the Affray was the first practical application of underwater TV by the Royal Navy. After two years of experimental tests, British scientists succeeded in mounting a TV camera in a watertight container specially welded to withstand high pressure at extreme depths, added a pipe frame containing powerful searchlights, and connected the apparatus to a salvage ship with a coaxial cable...
Probably even more important than Travelmanship is Clothesmanship. Consider the case of Maxwell J. Suave, the greatest Clothesman of our time. Suave usually wore pretty dingy-looking clothes, most of which he bought off a pipe rack in a cutrate Brooklyn clothing store, but he gave the impression that the finest tailors in the world tended to his wardrobe. He would mention casually that he was writing off for some more socks to his favorite haberdashery in Cannes. "They know my feet intimately," he would say, "and they do make different socks for each foot." He sent himself huge bills...
Probably even more important than Travelmanship is Clothesmanship. Consider the case of Maxwell J. Suave, the greatest Clothesman of our time. Suave usually wore pretty dingy-looking clothes, most of which he bought off a pipe rack in a cutrate Brooklyn clothing store, but he gave the impression that the finest tailors in the world tended to his wardrobe. He would mention casually that he was writing off for some more socks to his favorite haberdashery in Cannes. "They know my feet intimately," he would say, "and they do make different socks for each foot." He sent himself huge bills...
...ruddy-faced, stocky; pipe-smoking Hervé L'Heureux is a man who knows more about the habits, eccentricities and problems of Congressmen than most Congressmen themselves. In the 1920s, an ex-sergeant of the A.E.F., he got a job running an elevator in the Capitol, and not only transported Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge in his car, but used it as a vantage point to absorb the lore and atmosphere of Capitol Hill...
...being jabbed in the arm with a needle, there are other divertissements. For years there used to be a tall, cadaverous man standing in front of Jack's Lighthouse whose hobby was matching single men with single women. He wore a black suit and tie and a high stove-pipe hat that held a sign labeling him "The Mayor of Scollay Square...