Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious healthfulness and a smile far better dentifriced than most English girls', Betty Nuthall was the tournament's only box-office attraction. At the West Side Tennis Club she confounded people who had heard of her as a girl who combined tournament tennis with late dancing. She did not smoke or drink, went to bed nightly at 9:45, declared that she likes to make her own tennis dresses and that she had embroidered the Union Jack and Lion on her coat. Every morning she skipped a rope 700 times, and usually appeared on the courts in red sweaters...
...securing their newly regained title by a safe margin. By note and radio they berated their promotion manager William Pickens for the lack of cash reward in sight. On learning that Pickens had rejected a $1,000 offer for endorsement of a brand of cigaret which neither flyer smokes, Pilot Jackson demanded. "Have you guys gone crazy? Get the dough and never mind whether we smoke them...
Industry throughout France's northeastern manufacturing area was paralyzed last week by a walkout of some 135,000 workers. Smoke rose from few stacks in the textile and metallurgical centres of Rouen, Amiens, Lille. Serious disturbance developed at only one point, Roubaix, close to the Belgian border. There 900 Belgian strikebreakers, being escorted over the line by police, were stoned. Twelve were injured...
Compared to other accessories of modern photography, the noise, smoke and smell of flashlight powder are anachronistic. General Electric told last week of a new fiashlamp, with smell, smoke and noise eliminated...
...Duchess of York is also known to smoke privately and it will be recalled that when Princess Mary was married presents from her friends included a number of cigaret cases. These were expected to be used...