Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Evidence is becoming overwhelming that, in spite of the wordy smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...
Refreshments will be served throughout the evening, consisting of bevo, sarsaparilla, ginger ale, pretzels, crackers and doughnuts. Cigarettes will be furnished to all who care to smoke, and there will be music during the showing of the moving pictures...
...number of cigars, cigarettes, and pipes smoked daily by these men varies considerably. In the case of cigarettes we find that five drag at only one each per day, and that the number of men who smoke an increasing number of cigarettes per day mounts until sixteen Freshmen claim to consume five each day. Although the popularity of greater numbers of weeds decreases from here on, hero is an exception in the case of those who smoke ten per day, for eighteen confessed to the accusation. Four men puff at the rate of twenty every twenty-four hours...
...overwhelming majority offer incense to the God of Nicotine. But to attack the W. C. T. U. or any other organization for attempting to curtail the use of this rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable, seems to me somewhat like shutting the doors and windows of a smoke-filled room while some one else is trying to ventilate...
...will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with them much...