Word: pipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...melodramas before her mother adopted Pickford, her immigrant grandmother's maiden, name, as the family surname and altered Gladys to "Mary." In 1909, D. W. Griffith was looking for someone to play Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced, first under Griffith, then with other companies, to $2,000 a week in 1915, when she was called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over...
...extra eggs. Feed is ground and mixed by electrical machinery. Humming motors run corn-husking devices. Electric clocks dump pecks of oats into feed bins at 5 a. m. Electricity warms incubators where motors revolve the eggs periodically. Chicks are automatically herded under ultraviolet rays to ward off the pip. Electric heaters keep the pigpen cosy...
Intense was the mortification of Admiral Bristol when he found that aboard his ship, the small gunboat Mindanao, there was no gun equipped to return the salute with appropriate booms and detonations. Rather than set a machine gun to pip-pip-pipping, the flustered Admiral chose not to return the salute at all, but radioed his apologies to shore...
...Pip" has been renamed the "Pep", and the "Brown Pup" has been changed to the "Black Pup". The names of the "White Pup" and the "Class of 1892" are unchanged. These 4 boats have been painted a brilliant crimson. The "Black Pup" has a 2 inch black stripe on each side and across the stern to distinguish it from the "White Pup," which has a similar stripe of white...
Because of a defective bolt in the propellor, the new boat, which has been christened the "Pip", has been drawn up on the float during the past few days, but it will probably be put in the water today...