Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step is lively, his manner politely alert. He dresses well, usually in light grey. He has a pleasant easy smile, speaks in a low voice, ingratiates strangers. An Episcopalian, he regularly attends St. John's Church in Washington, St. John's Church in Stamford. He does not smoke...
...Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt...
...These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle line's port quarter, torpedo planes approached wing-to-water, theoretically launching torpedoes at the dreadnaughts from close astern, wheeling back through the smoke to safety when their work was done. Planes catapulted from the battleships sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show...
...distant relative. There are some 200 Langs in Oberammergau. Alois is tall, robust, 38. In 1922 he lost the election to play Jesus by only a few votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell...
Whether or not the sympathy of the teaching profession is with teachers who want to smoke, it was demonstrated last week that teachers disapprove drinking. Of five professional groups specially polled by the Literary Digest-lawyers, physicians, bankers, clergymen, teachers-the last were first in point of Dryness (95,422 for enforcement, 22,705 for modification, 38,956 for repeal...