Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad side of the river to get to his mail box. When he did not get his mail at Christmas they surely expected him to get it at New Years anyway. When the New Years past and still he had not come, they began to watch for smoke issuing from his chimney of his cabin. When this proved a failure, they decided that they would have to get volunteers to go to find him. Fred Berling, called Swagger, Geo. Todd and Andrew Swanson offered...
...refused to perform [TIME, May 18], sent a charitable contribution of $1,000 which he contemptuously called "about as much as I earned in my last two years on the English stage.") Place: the Palladium Music Hall, jammed as usual with men and women who like belly-laughs, smoke and beer. Because this was George V's first public appearance since bronchitis last put him to bed (TIME, April 20), the Palladium had wished to take steps; but George V ordered that "no smoking" be not ordered. The air was faintly blue when the King entered in opera cloak...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
...Aberdeen, Scotland, Scot Robert Bruce saw his barn on fire, rushed in to save his cows. As he went in for the last one, he was overcome by smoke, but saw the animal he was after dash by him in a panic. Hazily Robert Bruce reached up, grasped the animal's tail, was dragged in a hurry into the open...
...Smith College in Calvin Coolidge's town of Northampton, Mass., where able, modern girls smoke, drink and carry on in a frank and open way that is distressing to many a rigid alumna, there occurs each spring an event which commends itself to the most conservative. Smith has given the U. S. premieres of six classical operas, three by Claudio Monteverdi, three by George Frederick Handel. Last week still further to Smith's credit was the U. S. premiere of Handel's Rodelinda...