Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large osteopathic practice in & around Cambridge, Mass., which he generously shares with one or two beginners. Mrs. Wilson keeps the office spick & span as her own apartment which is adjacent. Their English bull terrier, Judy, 52, regularly summons them to dinner. Judy also "plays the piano." No one may smoke in Dr. Wilson's office. As long as he is there he works "like the devil" until he gets "the jitters," which happens every month or so. Then he and his wife hie off to some quiet place where he can sleep, walk and read "something with no relation...
...were not for the Charles, Harvard would lie cramped between an ugly industrial city bristling with smoke-stacks and neon signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
Puffer In West Paterson, N. J. a crowd gathered around a parked automobile to watch 23-month-old Charles Normand III and his father, a steam shovel operator, puff black cigars. Baby Normand's mother explained that he had started to smoke his father's cigars at 14 months, now has one of his own each night at cribtime. Whenever he sees a cigar or pipe, Baby Normand says: "'Moke, 'moke! me want." He does not inhale...
...Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress." The New Deal...
...Loved to See Him Smoke His Pipe...