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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasional murmur. It began vigorously in 1878, with the founding of the Anti-Tobacco Society in New York; it sank this year as Kansas, last state with an antitobacco law, repealed its pertinent legislation. The sequence recalls 17th Century Persian history; Shah Abbas made his tobacco-using courtiers smoke camel's dung for punishment; his grandson Shah Sen poured hot, melted lead down the throats of tobacco merchants; another Shah, Abbas II, found smoking pleasant and canceled old Persian laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Tobacconia | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Tickets for the Cercle production, as announced on Tuesday, are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's, Arthur's Smoke Shop, and Herrick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE ANNOUNCES CAST FOR FALL PERFORMANCE | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

These three plays will be produced on the boards of the Fine Arts Theater in Boston at a matinee and evening performance on Thursday, December 15. Tickets for the Performances, priced at $3.50, $2.50, and $1.50, will be on sale beginning Wednesday at Leavitt and Peirce's, Arthur's Smoke Shop, and Herrick's, or may be obtained from F. S. Parks '28 at 5 Massachusetts Hall or W. B. Cowen Jr. '29 at 52 Mount Auburn Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECEMBER 15 IS DATE OF CERCLE PRODUCTION | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

...after hour the procession wended its way through the square. A short speech by M. Kalinin was the signal for the singing of the International, which was taken up by the miles of parading populace. Simultaneously, the Kremlin*guns roared salvos of blank shells for six minutes, their blue smoke spiraling upwards around the pinnacles of St. Basil's Church and over the tower of the Spasski Gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Decennial | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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