Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the week Professor Malvoz and other scientists enjoying the confidence of Queen Elisabeth pursued their investigation. Throughout the world, industrialists owning factories from which smoke and gases belch watched anxiously to see whether Her Majesty's investigators would conclude that the "poison fog" which took so many Belgian lives was poisoned by the factories of the Meuse valley. Seldom before in recent history has a Queen so embarrassed the Cabinet of her husband's realm...
Seeing King Gustaf prepare to smoke, Prizeman Lewis fished in his pockets for a cigaret. "When informed that no one but the King might smoke," cabled United Press, "Mr. Lewis left the cigaret in his pocket, but his face clearly reflected a strong Democratic sentiment...
...reason, President Martin J. Condon of American Snuff told his stockholders last May that much depended on general business in the South. Negroes are the largest buyers, but many a white man in the South uses snuff. New England is another leading snuff area. Many factories forbid employes to smoke; they turn to snuff. New England sales have increased as the snuff habit has extended to younger consumers...
...that all is shipshape, Marshal Pilsudski will smoke his pipe contentedly in his dear old War Office (he always remains War Minister), will leave the prime ministry to swashbuckling Colonel Walery Slawek who prepared to take up his chores last week. Under the fantastic Pilsudski administration, oddly enough, Poland prospers steadily. Example: Gydnia, up to a few years ago a tiny fishing village, is now the first 100% Polish "Gateway to the Sea," teems with imposing dockyards, has just been connected with the centres of Polish industry by a new railway...
...acrobatic stunts. Finally Romeo is fed up with the sight of his face and leaves the house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When the smoke clears away you see the great singer raucously peddling fruit, the dumb acrobat swinging iron girders, and the mother putting on a circus act with her acrobatic twins...