Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...
...Fairfield, Conn. John Vargo, who had sworn off tobacco for 38 years, accepted a cigaret from a friend, smoked it while he drove home. The smoke got in his eyes. He lost control of the automobile, ran off the road, was taken to the hospital with three broken ribs, a bruised head...
...Manhattan, Albert Mailloux and George Beauchamp delivered a truckload of shirts to Dresswell Shirts, Inc. As they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...
...Vagabond rose, prophecy welling within him. "Gentlemen. Our Alma Mata doesn't care." He spoke with solemn dignity, stressing every word. No head stirred under its halo of smoke. No dull eye answered to his rhetoric...
...That's the trouble with graduating, nobody cares." The Vagabond wept a hot tear that burned its way down his check and dropped quietly off the point of his chin. He was suddenly overwhelmed with an infinite loneliness, space rolled away from him in vast undulating planes of smoke and he seemed to be lifted in a cradle of other bearing him up and up until he thought he would burst. Far below him he saw his friends pouring Scotch into opaque glasses and sometimes just pouring Scotch. He saw himself standing alone on a great platform in a black...