Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cape Smoke. Since White Cargo has run over 500 performances and has been sued for plagiarism, the necessity of an imitation was obvious. This new African adventure is a good deal louder than White Cargo and a lot funnier. Most of the laughter...
...styled judges for the people. "Evil to him who evil thinks." Great books in every age have grappled with the raw problems of life, near as they are to universal experience. The Albany legislators either deny the reality of these problems, or think that they can legislate them into smoke by passing bills against pictures or representations of these problems in one form or another. In their zeal for meddling and political quackery, the sponsors of the "Clean Books Bill" have forgotten the fact that experience shows the impossibility of legislating morality into people...
Case after case of the evils of the tobacco curse will fill the newspapers. "Jones, crazed by smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home...
...Republic in a fearless expose says: "College students are more or less naughty. They have a good deal of experimenting to do." And if one doesn't believe it, here are the shocking details: "The coeds smoke. At Vassar, 433 of them." The wicked place! How long has this coed business been going...
Away in the distance tooted the whistle of a train. Soon it appeared in sight, belching forth steam and smoke. A little later, General Pershing stepped from his compartment and received the ovations of the assembled multitude...