Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese. What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such. Tokyo knew last week that Japan produces no opium, that the British Empire (India) still exports most to opium smoking countries, that Chinese still smoke most. Diplomatic Fronts. Toward the League of Nations and the Great Powers last week, Japan's attitude was that the diplomatic struggle on both fronts was one of Hypocrisy v. Hypocrisy. China was not even able to get the League Council to get the League...
...Chapel, in secret, solemn conclave, meets the College of Cardinals. An ugly black stove stands in one corner. Into this go used ballots, and, until a Pope is chosen, handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...
...Trade Menace. Earlier this winter Correspondent Knickerbocker was again on the move, this time touring Germany in company with James Abbe, a onetime society photographer. Their discoveries, meaty copy for the Post & Ledger, appeared in 24 daily installments which were concluded last week. Title: BEHIND THE GERMAN SMOKE SCREEN...
...drought-stricken multitude by making beer, and not just more of the current mouth wash?" Not without a twinkle, our acquaintance assured him that insofar as he could ascertain, the news was of true report. His mentor's slow "Ah-" of satisfaction was released more gently than perfecto smoke...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...