Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it took Gary four days of boisterous civic celebrating to commemorate its 25th anniversary and the passing of the 100,000 population mark. Parades moved down its smoke-begrimed streets (Gary has aged far beyond its years). Schoolboys drilled, bands played, horns tooted - and the mills closed for a whole day while workers of 50 nationalities made merry. A downpour bedraggled the last day of the celebration, caused a postponement of park pageants...
...smoke-begrimed frame on a wall of Tennessee's capitol, Andrew Jackson seemed to cock his long ears expectantly one day last week. Below him sat the House, strangely hushed. Another hot political battle?the kind Old Hickory loved so well?was rumbling into Nashville. To his feet rose Representative John Tipton of Tipton to announce...
...issue of TIME, I notice an article in the Education Section, entitled "Smoke at Madison," from which I quote...
...Fearing (deceased) ; they have a daughter Mrs. Carolyn Ericson, an adopted younger son Dana (he eloped from Williams College last month, was in Hawaii last week with his bride, who eloped from Mt. Holyoke College), an adopted younger daughter Virginia whom they call "Ginnie." Carefully reared, she does not smoke. Her presentation at Court was arranged as a "surprise," Mrs. Dawes keeping the secret for weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year to a school in Paris. Frank, impulsive, vivacious...
...morning chapel) are well known. Mt. Holyokers disrespectfully pronounce them "Poise, Poipose and Poiserverance." And they know that a prime tenet of Dr. Woolley's philosophy of Feminism is this: no lady drinks intoxicants. Therefore, few of her students have ever been explicitly dropped for tippling. Before female smoking became commonplace the college had no official rule against it-it was inconceivable that a lady should smoke...