Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macdonald, Prime Minister of England: "One William H. Crawford, writing in Collier's Weekly stated that he had passed a cigarette case to my daughter Ishbel and her brother Malcom, and that I had looked at him sternly and said: 'My children are not modern enough to smoke.' He went on to say: 'Neither he nor his children play cards. There was no liquor in the Macdonald household. His children do not go to dances or theatre parties, but they have plenty of sport...
...improved Reedsdale container was designed to deliver twenty perfect cigarettes to the package whenever and wherever you smoke them. Number twenty is as perfect as number...
...have any difficulty in finding them we will send you a carton of 5 packages of Reedsdale Cigarettes (100 cigarettes) post paid for a dollar. Smoke one package at our risk. If you don't like them, return the four remaining packages and we will refund your dollar. Address Reed Tobacco Co., Dept. H, South 21st St., Richmond...
Vidar Jernberg, Swedish chemical engineer, makes thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
Amid all the gloomy smoke and fire which the Teapot Dome Scandal has spread over the national Congress, it must be refreshing to have there the naivete of a Magnus Johnson. Although the reports of his milking contests have of late simmered into quietude, the Senator from Minnesota has by no means yet emptied his bag of tricks. The latest is an excursion to the Senate press gallery to challenge a home-state newspaper correspondant to a verbal duel. If all Minnesota citizens are as frank and as earnest as their radical senator, the roof of the Capital Building would...