Word: underslung
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...stranger. He just told me at dinner he was so strange that when he took his seat at the table and asked his neighbor's name the latter replied, 'I am Jellicoe.'"* General Dawes grinned and puffed his hubblebubble pipe (christened by the British press "Old Underslung"). Edward of Wales tactfully produced a pipe from his own coattails, borrowed some of the Dawesian tobacco...
...soon as the King's health had been drunk,? before which no smoking is ever allowed, he pushed aside the perfectos and lit his famed hubble-bubble, the Dawes underslung pipe...
Even before he left the S. S. Olympic, he unhinged his famed underslung pipe and explained its mechanism to fascinated European journalists. Told of the intensive social obligations of an Ambassador, the heavy dinners he must endure, he replied: "I've been dining out in Washington for four years and have yet to remember gaining anything from it. I would as soon talk diplomacy with a man with a pipe in his mouth as any other way. My first two months in England will be reserved for my dear old friends of the British Army and the reparations dealings...
Charles Gates Dawes walked his Chow dog Chung along the Olympic's promenade deck, puffed his underslung pipe. He was satisfied. Everything had been precise, prompt-his conference with the Secretary of State, his last talk with the President, his packing, his sailing. He had telegraphed to London asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest...
...family shakes its head over Roger's "speed complex." At 14 he used to ride a motorcycle up the steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with an underslung chassis. Never did a jerky airplane bumping through a series of air pockets make him sick at his stomach...