Word: piping
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While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President's Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y Morales' bathroom...
Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...
...daze of fear, kept murmuring, "I cannot understand how El Gallo [The Rooster] escaped." To persons more familiar with the presidential plumbing, explanation was easy. In providing a sumptuous bath for His Excellency's son-in-law, the plumbers had switched over the President's former ventilation pipe to ventilate the Obregons...
...soldier had been caught redhanded, had confessed to setting the bomb, but resisted strongly all questions as to where he got the bomb and how he knew, or thought he knew, which bathroom pipe was the President...
...wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...