Word: piping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...timers will recall with a smile the production of the following fall. Percy MacKaye's "The Scarecrow." Based on a tale of Hawthorne, it was a fantasy of a scarecrow who could be made to come to life and who could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once...
...with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National Sugar Corp. On his 205-ft. Diesel yacht The Lotosland he has a pipe organ, a seaplane tender...
...Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which he holds the position of "tibia plena," he designed the "diplomy...
...human performer out of doors." When Mr. Barnes assured Sir Richard that there was no spoofing, the learned acoustician cocked his ears at all corners & crannies of the bathroom at Angmering-on-Sea. The overflow drain of the bathtub told the story. Next morning Sir Richard examined the pipe. It was about 1 1/6 in. in diameter, about 3 ft. 5 in. long, in the form of an S-bend. At the tub end of the tube was a perforated waste guard. The other end of the tube was open and passed through the wall to let the tub water...
Peptic ulcers occur in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum...