Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco at all. But no smoker could see what brand he was to puff...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...Swallow," said Dr. Falenks. Henry Harrington's sharp adam's apple bobbed twice and the camera was in his stomach. Dr. Falenks squeezed a rubber bulb in his left hand, sent a puff of air down the tube to distend the patient's stomach walls. Then he pressed a button in his right hand. A metal shutter clicked open the 16 pinholes, Henry Harrington's dark interior flared up with the brilliance of 20,000 candles and in 1/120th of a second 16 views of his stomach were registered on the films...
...bloodstained knife and a powder puff were found near the Prince body. Brushing aside the powder puff, police concentrated on the knife. In the 1820's, when pomaded romantics sniffed laudanum, read Lamartine and drank from skull-shaped mugs, a secret society known as / Carbonari (the Charcoal Burners) nourished in France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...