Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell), Walter Craig (John Boles), is simply a means to an end - having a house of her own which, spotlessly neat, secure against all intrusions, symbolizes perfectly her own empty meanness. Craig submits peacefully when forbidden to smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when...
...Smoke pours from long, jagged fissures or "chimneys" which have opened in the farm land of Perry and Hocking Counties, the home of 5,000 people. In places the 51-year-old fire has pierced above ground, burning buildings, destroying valuable timber, causing some deaths. Property values in the towns of New Straitsville and Shawnee and environs have dropped because of smoke and noxious gases. Roadways have sunk as much as five feet and at danger points signs warn motorists to proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from...
...long run benefit to the national welfare, a Democratic victory holds a far brighter future for governmental service. President Rosevelt has repeatedly come out in favor of extending the civil service requirements, even to highly paid positions. To lay down a smoke screen of cloudy accusations about Mr. Farley does not obscure the President's good faith. The rapid expansion of government functions, which took place when the recovery agencies were formed, made it impossible to bring the new positions under the examination and merit system. But the less spectacular branches, forestry bureau, consular and diplomatic corps, and the like...
...BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags...
...wobbled down the boardwalk in a bicycle parade, saw baby-faced Phyllis Dobson ("Miss California") win a trophy for being "the best looking girl on a bicycle." In the three "talent" competitions, rangy Gloria LeVinge ("Miss Birmingham") was one of the three winners. Warned by officials not to drink, smoke or speak to strangers, chaperoned by watchful relatives, the contestants modeled clothes at a fashion show, minced about in 300 expensive evening gowns, heard slinky Arlene Causey, 18 ("Miss Cook County, Ill.."), named the best-looking girl in clothes...