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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...

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 »

...hoist with a hookah," one pipe addict commented, while another said. "It satisfies our oral libido...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE TAKIES TO PIPES; COLLEGE AUTHORITIES KICK | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jazz Walker | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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