Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly...
...quiet, unpretending existence in the old house, until a year or so ago it was thought best to send it to college to receive those finishing touches that a university course alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember...
...students are strictly forbidden to smoke in Dane Hall. Per order of directors...
President White, of Cornell, has requested the students not to smoke upon the campus or grounds. The Cornell Sun indulges in the hope that certain professors will not consider themselves exempt from this gentlemanly request...
...horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather say it did; does he hake any more noises like that, we want to know? "Well," says Snodkins...