Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 65, and Mary Macfadden; by each other; in Trenton, N. J. Mutual charges: misconduct. Publisher Macfadden further charged that his wife, ridiculing his gospel of physical culture, encouraged their six daughters to "smoke and drink in swanky speakeasies...
Every packet of rank, loose-rolled Canarias that Spaniards smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
...land protruding south-west toward Asia, dribbling the Aleutian Islands from its end. It is a Dantesque region of ice and fire. Out of cracks in its glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid lake nestles. It is the unofficial domain, the scientific...
...have been the victims of bombing outrages at Soldiers Field. Last night when Coach Eddie Bradford stepped on the self-starter of his automobile, a loud crash burst on the stillness of the Cambridge evening. The whole rear-end of his Ford rose in the air and clouds of smoke enveloped the car: then a series of staccato machine-gun blasts; then silence...
...prisoner in the hands of the troopers during the afternoon, remarking that he would return "in a short time." By the time he got back night had fallen. His jail was besieged. Under the headlights of police cars, the mob was running crazily this way & that through the smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody...