Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...
...oblong room richly panelled. On his right rise the Government benches, on his left the Opposition. The members may recline at full length when the House is not too full. They may wear hats (must wear them when raising a point of order during a division), may not smoke, may not drink, may not address the House in any language except English...
...Berlin Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post who exposed the European forgers of the "Red Documents," roused German courts to clap them into jail. Last week famed Correspondent Knickerbocker sent from Berlin to Manhattan some despatches so startling that, should fire follow their smoke, he would become a very celebrated correspondent indeed. He said he had learned "from a high official German source" that...
Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...
...Ohio river last year (TIME, July 29) the little Betsy Ann was the second to reach the finish line but the first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front...