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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke out the Welshman they have flayed him for pursuing a com mon practice: that of allegedly accepting party contributions from commoners who were raised to the peerage during his term as Prime Minister (1916-22). Because this charge has been shrewdly ignored by Mr. George, a new one was started recently. By word of mouth it was alleged that his private purse has been swollen from his secret party fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Cowardly Slander | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...relieve this serious situation, to get U. S. smoke to U. S. smokers in France, the Government of Premier Raymond Poincare issued, last week, a wise decree. Hereafter, during the U. S. tourist season, special credits will be extended to small dealers by the State Tobacco Monopoly, thus enabling them to stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wise Decree | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Opened as Cave Smoke (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Pistol Protest | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...better not leave it, I see." In Paris, a fire was built and on the fire were placed the first pages of the diary. Like the fires that smoulder in the autumn along country roads, this fire burned slowly and with an acrid smoke as if there had been some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been written down so neatly upon paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Basil's Diary | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...lord and lady of the Guild's performing group, revel in their duties as unlovely artist, lovely wife. Equally excellent is Dudley Digges as the ancient and Henry Travers (he who was Androcles) as the physician with touched lungs. The play is long- five acts, four chances to smoke and meditate gratefully how good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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