Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some four months, I want to say this: I sit here at a $535 GF all-steel desk that George C. Brainard, President the General Fireproofing Co. sent me. I glance at an Illinois watch that General Manager Bob Miller of The Illinois Watch Co. sent me. I smoke a pipe filled with Edgeworth that Advertising Manager R. W. Holloway, Larus & Brother Co. sent me and "tap-tap" on some Coupon Bond Eagle Brand writing paper that President Sam (Alias "Sidney Louis," TIME, July 13) Willson, sent me and with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor...
Last week, Miss Williams took one look at Negro Peterson and nodded. Suddenly the room was filled with smoke, flame and sound. Dent Williams had whipped out another gun, concealed in the waistband of his trousers, and had done what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released...
...William Orpen, K. B. E., R. A. was born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, 52 years ago. He was an incredible little man who looked like a Gaelic gnome, used to smoke 70 cigarets a day, eat four meals, sleep twelve hours and walk 15 miles. To an enormous circle of acquaintances he was known quite simply as Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty...
...According to the files, a preceptress came into Miss Willard's room and saw smoke curling up from a bureau drawer. Pulling open the drawer, she was horrified to find a half-burned cigaret. Miss Willard was apparently just like any other girl...
...lounging ground crew springs into action. A large cloth panel with the figures "63" is spread on the ground, tells Commander Rosen dahl the ground temperature. Another panel, striped, is spread several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard lights, two red port lights, flashing rhythmically. (There are white stern lights too.) The ship comes in low, hesitates...