Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal and Consuming All Its Smoke. In 1790, at the age of 84, he died...
...Never smoke a pipe until you are hacking home...
...charge that he is under the influence of a clique of influential duck hogs who do their shooting in states where ducks concentrate, and . . . want the highest possible bag limit. . . .* We condemned the survey's widely publicized duck census because . . . Redington was using counting-the-ducks as a smoke screen to hide his true motives for opposing the reduction...
...homes of friends, according to the will of the hostess," at resorts to which young Baltimore men friends escort them, privily, by stealth, Goucher College girls have usually smoked if they wanted to. Their worst fear of detection has been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire...
Last week a native dog teamster reported that he had seen a thin column of smoke near where Pilot Eielson might have been forced down...