Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dick makes his boys work hard, likes to give them responsibility. The school has an honor system and each boy takes a pledge not to smoke during term time. The plan provides for double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...
...matter for regret that Herr Hitler is a man of such chilly personal correctitude!" the House of Commons was told in an impassioned speech last week by warm, beef-eating, virile Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, M. P., Conservative. "If he would smoke, eat and drink, Hitler might be more human and less dangerous. He might, like other dictators, be more anxious to take another person's concubine rather than their country! Instead, he is a great big bully in Europe...
...There is one mystery we haven't solved in Japan yet," mused he. "The mystery of the smoke-screen that veiled the Panay during the bombing so our airplane pilots could not distinguish her American flag. Those bombers thought they were bombing fleeing Chinese...
Having thus explained Japan, the Japanese and the Panay incident (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) to the New Orleans press, the Hon. Kaju Nakamura was ready to bow his visitors out. But on the smoke-screen point they pressed him vigorously, recalling that sharp U. S. eyes had brought back reports of Japanese bombers wheeling down out of a clear, bright winter sky. Fenced the Hon. Nakamura, grinning toothily, "This is my story, and I'm sticking...
...thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters in 1937 not only drank, smoked and swindled, but in one story (George Sessions Perry...