Word: piping
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Last week there were more whispers when word went about that Mrs. Edge had administered a charming rebuke to Vice President Dawes. It happened at a recent dinner party given by the Edges. Mr. Dawes pulled out his underslung pipe during the salad course, asked Mrs. Edge: "You really wouldn't mind if I smoked my pipe...
Said Mrs. Edge with a wise smile: "Not even the Vice President of the United States can smoke his pipe at this dinner table. You smoke a cigaret. You cannot smoke your pipe in this room, until the dinner is over and everybody but yourself has a chance to escape...
Thereupon, Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, Democrat, famed for the appearance of his face in Lucky Strike advertisements, offered Mr. Dawes a cigaret. The Vice President accepted it, took two deep inhales, crumpled it on his plate. Later, in the drawing room, he resorted to his pipe...
...only has Premier Baldwin kept from falling between the two stools of his party (Moderate-Conservative, and Tory), but his old fashioned brier pipe has become so much a part of the British scene that last week the King-Emperor remarked, on seeing a mammoth pipe exhibited as an advertisement, "They ought to give it to Baldwin...
...Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite...