Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of city smoke is attracting increasing attention on the part of the public and various governmental bodies." H. E. Clifford, acting dean of the Harvard Engineering School stated yesterday in discussing work being done on this problem at the school. At the same time Corporation Counsel Samuel Silverman stated at a conference attended by many Boston industrial leaders that the city is helpless to abate the smoke nuisance, since its only recourse to obtaining adequate regulation is through special legislation which would remove it from the jurisdiction of the present inadequate state smoke...
...Manhattan, when the "Black Maria" in which he was driving nine prisoners to jail, caught fire, Patrolman Arthur Quinn summoned a fire engine. When the fire engine arrived, ten minutes later, he allowed the prisoners scorched, screaming, blinded by smoke...
...dedication, however, the Apaches were in peaceful mood.† They made Citizen Coolidge "Chief White Father"; the Pimas bestowed upon him the title of "The Bringer of Waters."** Then the chiefs of both tribes and Chief White Father sat down on top of the dam to smoke their first peace pipe...
...there was a hero in the smoke produced by last week's Beavermere bang, it was Stanley Baldwin, stodgy leader of the Conservative Par.ty, which is now "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition," a rich man without ideas who has been twice Prime Minister, a man reviled as a blithering, blathering ass less than ten days ago by the then united Beaverbrook and Rothermere press...
...With the smoke of the recent hour examinations still lingering in the sky, and the threatening clouds of the April sessions rapidly looming up in the horizon, the present breathing space is sufficient for but a few pants before another gloomy period of reckoning and questioning arrives. Mid-Years being scarcely in the past, this formidable array of examinations lends an air of faculty surveillance that is not far removed from the preparatory school. In view of the theoretical independence of collegiate education, it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to see in what way this practice is either...