Word: smokes
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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the founding of the Anti-Tobacco Society in New York; it sank this year as Kansas, last state with an antitobacco law, repealed its pertinent legislation.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...
Tickets for the Cercle production, as announced on Tuesday, are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's, Arthur's Smoke Shop, and Herrick...
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...
...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...
...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...