Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes and graphologizes. You scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines indicate a gentle, tactful person; angularity tells of shrewdness. Flowers and leaves show a friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy scrawls are due to disordered, scrambled minds. The little house with smoke curling from the chimney is drawn by the lonely, sad, disappointed-in-love, childless person. You never scribble? Then your wish, desire, will, ability all flow into the same channel. ELISABETH THOMAS Graphologist Los Angeles, Calif...
...just as Bori does about "the opera house in the woods." The place has a unique, informal charm. It is an outdoor pavilion but the stage is enclosed on three sides, thus preserving the details which in much outdoor music are so sadly smudged. People may come informally dressed, smoke through the performances, have soda-water between the acts. And they come in crowds- in limousines, by train, or on the trolley...
Dapper Mayor James John Walker, much exercised over the deaths in his city, cried: "First degree murder and the electric chair are too good for ['smoke' sellers]. If I had a club I would hit on the head myself any man who sold poison liquor, and I would not wait for a policeman. I said poisonous liquor. ... It is a violation of the Constitution to sell [any] liquor, but we might stagger through that...
...warmed up. Miss England II was doing more than 101 m. p. h. on her third run when she swerved suddenly. The whole side of the thin white flying shell seemed to give way. While the roar of the engines still echoed across the lake, a column of flame, smoke, foam, water shot up and the boat burrowed under. It came up slowly, upside down...
...Millstadt Volunteer Fire Department will answer all alarms clad in their pajamas. The style of these garments will be left to the individual tastes of the various fire fighters with my recommendation for the selection of very gaudy colors, which will make identification simple even in the densest smoke...