Word: piping
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...course the Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...
Affrighted, Mrs. Baldwin clung to the Premier's arm. Imperturable, he looked at the crowd with level eyes, silently sucked at and puffed his famed pipe...
...hate to see so many good bits of this stuff cut up and flung around, but it looks like that was the only way we could ever have got them in here." He stopped, spat, chewed a diseased pipe and then added, "you see, even with the big doors they put in here, they forgot to figure that the doors in the old building was just as small as ever. Look at this, here...
...break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...never heard of America and were going to kill Messrs. Clark and Morden. These men discussed their insurance policies and "hoped they would shoot us and make it snappy." They tried to faint to escape the pains in their arms, but could not manage it. After much grunting and pipe-smoking the Mongols changed their minds, fed their captives tea, sent the caravan ahead under a guard...