Word: piping
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...UP?A primitive tragedy of the Carolina Mountains where reading and writing are viewed with native alarm. Particularly worth while is the performance of Lucile La Verme, who smokes a corn cob pipe as though she likes...
...scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some...
Finally, La Presse rues " the good old days when silk hats were not abandoned until after the Grand Prix and no one followed the fashion of the (then) Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), who smoked a pipe in the street...
Parisian pique at pipe-smoking pedestrians...
Ambassador Harvey : " Howard Chandler Christy painted a portrait of me in informal attire (soft collar, pipe-in-hand effect); Mrs. Post Wheeler, wife of the U. S. Charge d'Affaires in London, hung it in her house and had an ' at home.' Many society folk came to have a look...