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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average Princeton man has been described by a certain girls' college as a not-quite grown-up prep school boy who has not yet become used to the fact that he doesn't have to smoke up the ventilator any more. We Elis would describe him as of the species "Joe College," the rah-rah, razzle dazzle "hot dog." We would think of beer suits, "The Nass," and house parties, and pronounce him a clothes-horse, social butterfly, and incipient "lounge-lizard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

Earwicker's dreams, like most people's, are troubled by hints of depravity, but they remain hints. Even suggestive words are disguised. Is the book dirty? Censors will probably never be able to tell. Melting and merging in Earwicker's dream-state, like smoke in a fog, readers sense Anna, the girl with whom he is in love: Anna on the riverbank, Anna Livia, Anna Livia Plurabelle. Through the menacing or ridiculous distortions of his dreams, the thought of Anna Livia breaks with singular lyric beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Screams of women and shouts of men could be heard coming from the innermost recesses of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. A man of action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...Fire?" A hundred eyes stared down at him, through the smoke of innumerable cigarettes. "What fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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