Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...smoke of candles is still blowing off birthday cake, the children are being taken home and Martin is spared the full knowledge of what he is growing up to. And grown-up Mr. Morley in his own wistful type of fantasy has played the theme of lost childhood...
...firemen are used to large heroisms. They climb precipitous buildings like human flies and plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...
...certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched the moving sun patches on the heavy glass windows of the church. And so it has become to the normal young American more or less of a curse. It is hard at that age to dissociate the subject matter from the circumstances under which...
...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...