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Word: smoke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where's Dick Harlow? We can't let him hide behind that column of cigar smoke any longer. Step up and tell us about the gooseggs you collected Saturday, Dick...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHATS HIS NUMBER? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...whole thing was over in 30 seconds. After that only a dark cloud of smoke was visible. Royal Oak had disappeared, while Repulse listed heavily forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...brave said he had to leave his squaw at Smith because of the Harvard parietal rules. "Heap fine women she is too, but holy-smoke lead me to Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invading Indian Demands Room in Stoughton Hall | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...Mahatma protested less, the art world would almost certainly have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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