Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked of almost nothing else. Under his flowery salesmanship Pittsburgh pocketbooks melted. His dream became 42 stories of clean steel towering above the city's smoke and grime. But Depression canceled many a promise of cash. Since 1931 the Cathedral of Learning has been a stranded skeleton, with students warming themselves by oil burners in the seven floors completed. To finish dressing his dream in stone Chancellor Bowman lately launched a new campaign...
...When you've used up your energy at work or play," read the Esty advertisements, "smoke a Camel and notice how soon you feel your flow of natural energy snap back ... a healthful and delightful release of natural, vibrant energy. . . . Basic discovery from a famous research laboratory...
...work of these Swedish investigators was little known in this country until precisely the same findings were unearthed by two eminent physiologists in a leading American university. . . . They pointed out that the effect from the smoke was not only the same as eating in regard to increase of blood sugar, but also that, the symptoms of a low sugar concentration, fatigue and irritability, were temporarily relieved. . . . This 'lift' can be enjoyed as often as desired...
...eminent scientists in Sweden" referred to by the Reynolds Co. were Erik Lundberg and Stina Thyselius-Lundberg, medical experimentalists of the Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm. They wanted to know whether a diabetic might smoke, and, if so, how much. In the experiments on healthy and diabetic subjects, they used Camel cigarets. As a scientific "control" the Lundbergs also used German denicotinized cigar-cigarets called Bad Toltz. Nicotine either in smoke or as a straight drug, as the Lundbergs found and other investigators already knew, stimulated the adrenal glands. The stimulated adrenals exuded adrenaline which released sugar, which...
Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner...