Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week California voters solved Alf Landon's problem for him. Publisher Hearst could still puff the Landon boom, but the one instrument by which he could have exerted real pressure on the Kansas candidate had irretrievably slipped his grasp. Commented Governor Landon: "I am entirely satisfied with the California results...
...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
...course this is Mr. Charles M Puffer. Charles M. Puffer. What do you want?" Mr. Puff at this point allowed his voice to slip slightly beyond control and those who were gathered around the other end rolled in glee as the thunderous tones rolled through all of Hollis...
...Well, Mr. Puffer, puff away, Puffer old boy." Mr. Puffer's answer constitutes the Crime. Mr. Puffer pulled away in language that a resident Tutor can reproduce, but the Crimson cannot print, even in the Crime...
...Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...