Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legion Post plans to hold a series of informal smoke talks for members only throughout the year. An expert on some special military phase of the war will speak at each of these meetings...
...learns he learns, in a sense, by the active operation of his own intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is the continued and intimate contact with his fellows. Students must live together and eat together, talk and smoke together. Experience shows that that is how their minds really grow. And they must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big dining room or hall, with oak beams across the ceiling, and the stained glass in the windows and with a shield...
...will be open all night and returns will be announced as late as members may care to wait for them. Light refreshments will be served as ordered up to the regular closing time of the Union and the Living Room will be arranged so that members may lounge and smoke while the returns are being compiled...
Throughout the winter the Post will hold occasionally, for members only, informal smoke talks. At each of them some expert in some special military phase of the war will speak to the members who cars to be present...
...strong as ever. There have been railway strikes, factory strikes, and, as at present, coal strikes; there have come up for settlement the Irish problem, the Polish question, delicate relations with France on the German question, and other foreign complications. Lloyd George remains in control. When the smoke screen has cleared, when the events and issues of the present period shall have become history, the British Premier will stand out as one of the shrewdest politicians and ablest states men of all time...