Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
...told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...Board of Estimate meeting by correcting a Tammany clerk who persisted in reading a petition for the Goethe Society as if it were spelled "goat." Mayor McKee is married, has two sons, spends his summers at Mamaroneck. To Broadway and its night life he is unknown. He does not smoke, drink, wisecrack. He golfs in the 90's. Modest and self-effacing, he referred to himself last week as "acting mayor...
...years there "Copey" would let no electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...
Though biographies of George Washington have been written in abundance, many details of his life have not been widely known until this year, bicentenary of his birthday. More or less newsworthy have been the revelations that he did not smoke; ordered his wife's dresses; that he was a shrewd landowner who left an estate of $1,000,000; that a poem "On Christmas Day" which he was supposed to have composed was copied from an old book. A George Washington story known to few persons remained to be made current by Editor Charles Edward Thomas of The Delta...