Word: smoked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these questions are tremendously important, but the smoke from the discussion should not obscure the goal. The need for better leadership, more honest thinking and a saner intellectual balance particularly in newspapers, is all too clearly evident to students of contemporary periodicals. Somewhere writers should be able to learn the elementary rule of journalistic navigation, that of steering their course straight between bombast and pussyfooting. In the United States a few powerful and unethical newspapers have in the past, and may in the future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more...
...afternoon very drowsy and draped self on davenport, listening to the radio. Three minutes of Benny - Goodman - Hal - Kemp - Bing - Crosby - Fats - Waller - Shep - Fields - and - his ripplingrhythm - Muzzy - Muzzolino - Mussolini - whatever - it - is. Three minutes of spiel - MEN! smoke Webster - the All-American cigar . . . . The third race at Hialeah . . .--Have you tried Carter's Little Liver Pills...
...conference, but it seemed to me more like a vaudeville item. The only things missing were a set of bones and a banjo. Mr. President called everybody by his first name and it was all very jolly. When one of the boys asked a riddle, Mr. President blew a smoke ring at him from his cigaret and ditched the answer...
...Saturday it would not conflict with a big football game.* Graciously, he staggered performances so that stars could keep appointments elsewhere. Reiner clashed only once with Stage Director Armando Agnini, over a new $1,800 steam apparatus for Gotterddmmerung to help Valhalla go up realistically in flames & smoke. The conductor barred the steam because it hissed too loud. Pleaded Agnini : "But, Maestro, there will be a scandal if we don't have the steam. The audience is expecting it." Flashed Reiner: "There will be another scandal if there is steam. The conductor will leave the pit." No steam...
...fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines. The Red militia outnumbered the White Army last week and had received many...