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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Choked showed the Premier drawing furiously at his pipe, which is marked " Trade " and filled with " protective mi ture." A conservative poster, however, showed him smoking a mixture of tariff slogans with evident enjoyment. The voter is asked to " put this in your pipe and smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men Behind the Elections | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

Flaming Youth endeavors to establish that young men and maidens wild are going up in the smoke of their own cigarettes. It contains all the rabble of trashy devices which cinema directors employ traditionally to indicate the younger degeneration, even to the midnight bathing party. All this is un-tunate, since the story of the socially rabid mother who on her deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...every man's mind, or, out of pure scientific interest "in little", the response should help out a good cause. Although table tipping and ghosts have largely gone out of fashion, the belief in spirits, or better, talking spirits, is stronger than ever. And where there is so much smoke, there ought to be a little fire. But Professor MacDougall has limited his study to the field of mental telepathy. Of this "though transference" there are so many evidences that few can doubt the existence of the phenomenon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOOKS AND EXPERIMENTS | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

True in a measure, no doubt; but note Mr. Gomper's method of attack. "Here is Hearst,' he writes, "with the colossal effrontery that 'international bankers' are responsible for the opposition of the United States to Soviet Russia. What better camouflage or smoke-screen for the operations of those international bankers and concession hunters to secure recognition? What more effective appeal to the American masses who have no love for high finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTING FOR THE MASSES | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

...public also saw the laying of a smoke screen by Sergeant Hudson in a de Haviland bomber, his ship disappearing completely from view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Carnival | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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