Word: piping
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...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
Harvard welcomes Princeton men to Cambridge today. In the warmth of April breezes the sons of Nassau and of John Harvard will re-light the pipe of peace which a chill November blast blew out four years...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
...Pipe Lines. Insistent has been the plaint of the railroads that the oil companies should not control the transportation of oil through pipe lines. Last week three railroads-Texas & Pacific, St. Louis-Southwestern, International Great Northern (Missouri-Pacific controlled)-heard joyously that two big oil companies had dropped the idea of building pipe lines into the new eastern Texas oil field. Reason thought to be behind the decision was that Texas laws provide that the owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps...
They both feel somewhat sheepish on account of the lives they are leading, so they decide to fight their way tooth and nail back to the Good Life. True, it's uphill work because of Stevie's lingering desire for strong stimulants and Angle's frequent bouts with the pipe, but love, running true to form triumphs, and a year later finds them both ensconsed in the ancestral mansion. Neither Farrel nor Gaynor sing...