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Word: hookah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are. This is the art of fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...that of Meyerbeer. Emett's railwaymen become involved in the most decided peculiarities of right-of-way (see cut}. One of Emett's railway carriages is blue with the exhalations of an American Indian sucking his calumet, a Chinese inhaling opium, an East Indian at his hookah and other assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emett of Punch | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Recipe. In Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Copulos, 100, attributed her good health to the fact she had smoked a hookah for 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...rushed one Ibrahim Hakki Konyali, a Turk of doubtful learning but steely ethic. Haled into court at his insistence was the publisher of the first Turkish translation of Aphrodite, by Pierre Louys, for 50 years a classic of carnality among Frenchmen and U. S. undergraduates. Istanbul bubbled like a hookah. Enlightened Turkish newspapers were highly incensed with Ibrahim Hakki Konyali. Then on Istanbul book stalls appeared a new Aphrodite, adorned with a photograph of a sculptured nude, billed as "the book everyone is talking about." The author: Ibrahim Hakki Konyali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aphrodite in Turkey | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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