Word: piping
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...surely, Vagabond or not, I must rest a bit. So eleven will discover my errant figure before the gate with the Latin inscriptions improving my mind as Bruin my digestion with a rank pipe. Twelve, however, since I have not the persistence of Socrates (though that's another story), will disclose my last peregrination of any purpose--for I intend to walk back and forth between Harvard 8 and Robinson determining whether Dr. Murdack's lecture on the background of Milton's work or Dean Edgell's on the Early Renaseence in France has the greater attraction. Anyone who wishes...
...cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
...Herriot, sucking meditatively at his pipe, bowed gravely to Ambassador Rakovsky. For a few moments they leaned against a booth and talked. Gradually Mayor Herriot warmed toward the amiable Russian. He forgot that many of his bourgeois Lyonnaise constituents invested heavily in Russian bonds before the War and now regard all emissaries of the Soviets as agents of the Devil. In a word, M. Herriot invited M. Rakovsky to an official banquet at Lyons that night. They shook hands and M. Herriot strolled on, still sucking-warm whiffs from his Italian briar...
Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor...
...pipe," he said, his eyes, twinkling...