Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...timers will recall with a smile the production of the following fall. Percy MacKaye's "The Scarecrow." Based on a tale of Hawthorne, it was a fantasy of a scarecrow who could be made to come to life and who could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once...
...dogs legally owned and taxed, they are as legitimate a luxury as Mr. Butler's tobacco. Or, if he doesn't smoke, he no doubt has other expensive habits. Scientific tests have proved that dog-owning children have a 50% better chance of growing up into honest, thoughtful citizens. And would Mr. Butler deprive thousands of lonely city people of their only companions? I refer, particularly, to "old maids" and bachelors in strange cities, to say nothing of invalids. Of course there is no need to call attention to the hundreds of useful farm, police and hunting dogs...
...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white is right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...
Elimination of the smoke nuisance and diminution of congestion in switching terminals, as well as faster and more comfortable transportation, were chief results of the electrification. Multiple-unit trains are used throughout, each car having its individual motor equipment. This eliminates the use of locomotives and enables the Lackawanna to reduce the time on runs...
...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white in right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...