Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since August, when a picture of General MacArthur kissing the gloved hand of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was published in Paris, France has been agitated over the problem: Should a gentleman kiss a gloved hand? The fact that General MacArthur was shown wearing his hat and grasping a pipe in his left hand added to the confusion...
...Most cities' plumbing codes require twice as much pipe as the new national code, and most cities' electrical codes are equally wasteful...
...candidate after the regular nominee died in mid-campaign. Even after he was safely ensconced in the state capitol in citified Denver, Thornton continued to wear the cowboy costume in which he successfully stumped the state. He often made photographers wait for pictures while he found an old brier pipe, which he never smokes but likes to wear clamped between his teeth...
...feel that what I have to say to you about that damn pipe, comic-opera boots and two-gallon hat will be of some political benefit . . . Honestly, Dan, do you think having your picture taken for public consumption with your feet up on a desk, with your hat on and that smudge pot in your mouth, adds any dignity to yourself or the important office of governor? . . . If you do, you should have stayed down in the sandhills of west Texas, where the boys come into town on a Saturday riding a mountain lion and using a live rattlesnake...
...State Department has a Bureau of U.N. Affairs under Assistant Secretary John D. Hickerson, a bouncy, pipe-smoking, veteran careerist. From this clearing point, directives flow to the Lake Success delegation-a staff of about 180, headquartered at 2 Park Avenue...