Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furious Mrs. George W. J. Bissell, widow of Pittsburgh's Stoveman Bissell, whose California vacation was spoiled by news that her home, heirlooms and art collection had gone up in smoke, dispatched a letter to the Pittsburgh city council: "I have just been informed . . . that the fire department had come to the fire with insufficient hose to reach the plug, and that by the time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire...
...stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated at ?1,000,000. A receiver was hastily appointed to take charge of one of England's biggest bankruptcies since lurid Promoter Clarence Charles Hatry went up in a puff of scandalous smoke five years ago (TIME...
Residents in K and L entires of Eliot House shortly after lunch yesterday were started by volumes of smoke which seemed to be coming from nowhere, and which were rapidly filling rooms and hallways. An explanation came form a sleuth-like driver of a laundry truck, who had arrived at a masterful deduction...
...Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl, she eventually learned to keep the corncob puffing. She now confesses to enjoying a smoke, is having difficulty breaking herself...
...soon as the cold which confined him for two days to the White House had abated, he went to his offices, held a conference with his newshawks. They were forbidden to smoke because of the delicate state of the President's nose. Then he took up the affairs of Congress. He called in Vice President Garner, Senate Leader Robinson, Speaker Byrns and Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee, convinced them that he must be given $4,000,000,000, without any strings tied to it, for putting men to work. Reason: The manner of spending...