Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that you both smoke and drink...
...actual, visible contacts went, however, Mrs. McCormick strove alone against the Messrs. Rathbone and Yates, with her own statewide chain of women's Republican clubs. When the returns came in, she was to be seen nowhere near the smoke-fouled headquarters of Small or Thompson. She had headquarters of her own in Chicago, full of fresh air, flowers, candy and lady friends. Her daughter, Katrina, helped answer the telephone. Her friend Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the "Princess Alice" of Rooseveltian days at the White House and now the wife of the Speaker of the House, helped add up returns...
Latterly great bond houses have trained up a generation of college bond saleswomen, who are always called "salesmen," who are always shouted at by the boss across a field of desks by their last names, and who smoke up the sales rooms. Seventeen ladies are actually partners in Stock Exchange houses. Three of them have applied to the Exchange authorities for admission to membership. "Too much jostling on the floor," the 15 gentlemen of the Committee on Admissions have always sternly replied. "No worse than subways or night-clubs," is the reply of the eager ladies...
...members are "hazed" and "razzed" cruelly. Favorite tortures are to sell them stocks which do not exist, deliver them bogus orders from telephone booths, induce them to smoke ($15 fine...
...Garden of Eden. Toni Le Brun was fired from a smoke-blue Paris cabaret because she was naïvely virtuous. The wardrobe mistress (Louise Dresser), one of those quaint impoverished baronesses, adopted her, took her to Monte Carlo where the pair lived for a month on the savings of a year. In the garden of the Hotel Eden a rich young man (Charles Ray) makes love to Toni (Corinne Griffith). A marriage is arranged. Enraged by last-minute accusations of gold-digging, Toni tears off her wedding gown, runs through corridors in less & less until finally she encounters the Prime...