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This important piece in yesterday's Thursday Styles section on new fashions in men's pants in Copenhagen got us thinking about the uses of the word stovepipe.

Svelte, stylish, Scandinavian

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During the Cold War, each spy service developed its own mission, budget and bureaucracy. Over time, the agencies were divided by bitter rivalries and cultural clashes. They communicated in vertical 'stovepipes' that funneled critical information up to managers but rarely across internal lines or to other U.S. agencies.
-Los Angeles Times, 5/16/05

We tend to remember distant wartime campaigns in soft focus, with a noble president -- think Lincoln in his stovepipe hat or FDR in his navy cape -- rallying the people to his side.
-The Washington Post, 10/29/04

GSW Jackes-Evans Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of GSW Industries of Delaware, has chosen Eastman Advertising, St. Louis, as advertising and pr agency for SuperChimney Twenty-one and Superpipe 6 products. The company makes stovepipe and chimneypipe.
-Adweek, 2/9//87

Surrounded by his wife, Lois, and three of his four children, Mr. Lautenberg stood before a stone fireplace and took the oath of office administered by Judge Zita L. Weinsheink of Federal District Court in Denver. Also present were Senator John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, Senator Rudy Boschwitz, Republican of Minnesota, who appeared in a stovepipe hat, and about 30 other guests.
-The New York Times, 12/28/82

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