Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sherry apéritif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke...
...Senate had done its best but the final writing of the Revenue Act of 1934 devolved last week upon ten elderly men gathered out of public sight around a large mahogany table in the gaudy room of the Senate District of Columbia Committee. There amid a cloud of cigar smoke five Senators and five Representatives, conferees for their respective chambers, tackled the serious business of just how far down into the pockets of 125,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. the Government should thrust its hand during the next fiscal year...
...outward appearance a true Harvard man. Hoeing confesses to the heathen background of an Amherst A. B. (Cum Laude 1929). He smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...
From Stillman Infirmary comes news of another act which, if not so murderous, is equally diabolical. When a Law School patient was informed that smoking was absolutely prohibited on his floor, he adopted the expedient of slipping off to the bathroom and there indulging in a smoke. Caught in the act, he was reprimanded, which did no good. Next his bedroom slippers were taken from him, in the hope that he would not venture forth barefoot. This was equally ineffective. The nurses then went into a huddle--and the patient was deprived of his bathrobe and the lower half...
Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony had to pause during Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, one night last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while Conductor Koussevitzky asked the audience to sit down, be quiet. The billows of smoke that were gushing out on the stage and swirling among the imperturbable musicians, were only from a fire in a rubbish chute, which was quickly controlled. When a friend congratulated Koussevitzky not only for averting a panic but for keeping his tempo precise and unhurried through it all, Koussevitzky answered: "Ah! But tempo is tempo and tranquillity is tranquillity...