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Word: puffers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, misled by an erroneous picture caption, apologizes to Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton. The stogie-puffer was Antoinette Dallas Turcas Throckmorton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...PUFFER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Shylock Marshall. In the next issue of the Gazette, it was Secretary of State George Marshall's turn. This time the Soviet puffer was Nikolai Pogodin, winner of 1939's Stalin prize for his play The Chimes of the Kremlin. Ambassador Smith did not waste his breath protesting. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth, as Directed | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism, and God. The nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications to his house; A. R. Boyer, psychologist and professional Westerner; and Harry Keith, selfish and neurotic professor of History and Literature whose ambition, plus his predilection for other women, causes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

...comfortable, book-lined Washington office, with fireplace, Berge works quietly, with few press conferences. Like Arnold, he is a pipe-puffer; he keeps twelve pipes cooling in his desk drawer. In the next year, he expects to hack at cartels with another batch of indictments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONOPOLY: The Opening Gun | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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