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...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...
...hoist with a hookah," one pipe addict commented, while another said. "It satisfies our oral libido...
...popular conception of their cities. Should the Lord Mayor of London visit the U. S., none would be content if he failed to take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...