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