Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still in front, 1 min., 15 sec. at the finish. Later in the day, to make the U. S. sweep complete, Ace, Gull, Tempe III and Winsome won a team race against four Cuban star boats, 24 points...
...unseen and unseeing audience of National Broadcasting Co. was not let in on the fun at first. Loth to help puff a competitor's stunt, NBC banned all mention of the brother-hunt when Burns & Allen were invited as guests of Chase & Sanborn's Eddie Cantor. Fleischmann's Yeast's Rudy Vallee. Crooner Vallee was actually switched off the air when he inadvertently referred to it. But since Eddie Cantor threatened to work in a reference in such a way that NBC would have to switch station announcements, NBC's protests have gone pretty much...
...Georges LeMaitre, Belgian priest, although he affects the conventional black suit of the learned U. S. Jesuit. No funster is he, although he chuckles continually. No nitwit is he, although he says of a steam engine device newly invented by his brother in Geneva: "It does something about the puff-puff-the exhaust-but I am not sure what it is." The Catholic University of Louvain educated him; the late Cardinal Mercier ordained him; M. I. T. taught him physics and English; Louvain created for him a chair of relativity. At 39 he deals with Nobel laureates...
While Samuel Insull was in flight, his long-nosed brother Martin John Insull was tossing on a cot in one of the dingiest, harshest jails in Canada. There was no running water. The meals were terrible. He was not allowed to puff his pipe...