Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week with Dr. Samuel Alburtus Brown, Dean of New York University Medical School, who has accompanied me on my European vacations the past 25 years, I remarked: 'I have to take things slower now than I did a few years ago. I don't smoke and I take one drink a day under doctors' orders...
...rather take a swim than a smoke. I want all young people to find the joy I do in reading the Bible. . . . Why-I get more kick out of reading ECCLESIASTES than in having a date...
...makes people want to ask you questions," he went on to say. "I'm sure that many people who see me every day believe, and always will believe, that I can see. In fact some of them ask me. The most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money by sitting on the curb and watching a chimney...
...smoke, never have and never shall" were the emphatic words of Schumann-Heink, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of her singing career in Boston. "I don't believe in it for women; let us leave just a little of the poetry attached to the name of woman. Of course it is all right for men; but when I see women and especially young girls smoking I could slap their faces right and left...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...