Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pulaski County, Ky., Teacher Bertha Mize of the Short Creek School, thirsty, drew herself a glass of water from the school cooler. It looked, she thought, a little queer. The water seemed cloudy. Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion...
...Lampoon was grilled in Arthur's restaurant yesterday. The veteran flunkey of the Lampoon building was raked over the coals by Cambridge sleuths and cleared of all changes following an unauthorized smoker held early yesterday morning in Arthur's Smoke Shop, which resulted in the theft of accessories necessary to the worship of Lady Nicotine...
...door leading from the street was opened, Arthur believes, with a key, although the revellers tried to make it look like a professional job, by digging at the door-frame with jimmy. A pane of glass in the smoke shop was smashed and the door opened from the inside, with the aid of a little jimmying from the outside. Police are looking for the jimmy and its owner...
Talk is and that exact concerning one French writer, hight Balzac, namely: he used to stay up late at night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he sees the novel through at least three mediums plus Otis Skinner. "The Honor of the Family", born a bon mot, dies a cliche. One must, however, respect the dead. Mr. Skinner, Miss Jessie Royce Landis are very kind pall-bearers. But why the funeral...
...drove the Captain's dog team, evinced a polite interest in the marvels that were told him. The other natives of the expedition. believed that the Captain was either mad or lying, but he, Abie Bromfield, understood things. "By jingo," he said politely, puffing a mouthful of smoke at the arctic moon...