Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Batista's men soon surrounded the National Hotel, off & on training machine-guns at it. The officers coldly refused to return to their commands or to disperse. Wives and friends brought them sidearms. Once Batista's men, come to smoke them out, met Ambassador Welles in the lobby and had to back out. They vaguely understood that where the U. S. Ambassador lives is U. S. territory. Some of the officers wanted to rally the enlisted men, of whom each felt he could count on perhaps a score, and march on the Palace. Most were willing to compromise...
Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...
...fire he was tending that morning. County Pathologist Dr. Frederick Proescher testified that he found blood on the pipe and clothing, but could not say whether it was animal or human blood. To corroborate his evidence, a neighbor of the Lamsons testified that she had noticed heavy smoke coming from the fire, had smelled what she thought was burning flesh. The prosecutor alleged that Lamson had beaten his wife over the head with the pipe, then sought to destroy all evidence in the fire. Witnesses were called to testify that Lamson's domestic relations were discordant, that...
...hammer & tongs on the income tax issue in an attempt to smoke him out of office. The Mayor of New York by common consent holds the third most important elective office in the U.S.- If he is able and ambitious he may be chosen Governor of the State, from which office it is but one long step to the White House. He greets more distinguished foreigners, delivers more speeches, lays more cornerstones, makes more important news than any other U.S. mayor. The Mayor of the nation's second city- hustling, bustling, brawling, sprawling Chicago-should by rights rank next...
...extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...