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Word: smoked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leather and somewhat sombre respectability of the Ritz Carlton contributed an air of calm that is quite unusual in theatrical interviews, but Miss Margalo Gilmore of "Berkeley Square" succeeded in providing sufficient zest to compensate for the absent back stage excitement it was a sort of fire without the smoke arrangement which is to say that it was somewhat of a simplification of the ever-present, bold intrusiveness of an interviewer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albie Booth and Mussolini are Both Supermen Declares Star of "Berkeley Square"--Finds Romance in Former's Ability | 10/29/1930 | See Source »

...Freshman Class the following important and traditional customs: 1. Only black ties may be worn by Freshmen. This restriction applies only until Washington's birthday. 2. The regulation head-dress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. 3. Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen should get off the walk for every other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Nassau | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gnats | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe in diamonds. He looked like a publican dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer & Skittles* | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...Jamaica, L. I., Frank La Carta, laborer, boarded a bus filled with theatre-goers, began to amuse himself by blowing smoke rings into their faces. Driver John Reiss asked La Carta to throw away his cigaret. La Carta refused. John Reiss stopped the bus, prepared to take La Carta to the street. La Carta knocked John Reiss against a window-glass, which crashed. La Carta then ripped off a section of the guard rail, flailed about him, pursued John Reiss. While women shrieked, men went to John Reiss's aid, pummeled La Carta until Jamaica police reserves came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Trance | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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