Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aren't the men smoking?" she questioned crisply. "Let them all smoke! In fact, I want a cigaret myself...
...Nonsense!" snapped Victoria's daughter, taking one of the cheap cigarets, bending over the embarrassed officer's match. "Nonsense, I always smoke gaspers!" and as the concert began His Majesty's venerable aunt was seen to inhale vigorously...
Queen Mary, since it became publicly) known that she smokes (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11), has received a constant stream of protests, not from Her Majesty's own subjects but from women's clubs in the U. S. babbitt belt. The Queen does not smoke "gaspers" (popular brands) but medium priced, tipped, essentially feminine cigarets...
Even in her own royal residence on the outskirts of The Hague, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is supposed to obey the rule of her august mother Queen Wilhelmina: "Unmarried ladies of the Court shall not smoke...
...understood that Mecklenburg later expressed to Her Majesty the opinion that their daughter, who is now of age, is old enough to smoke, that the great Queen is pondering some relaxation of her Court smoking rule...