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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoke-filled committee rooms at Washington the Ramspeck bill is, of course, singularly unpopular; in the nation at large, however, a different verdict is rendered. The most notorious of Jacksonian institutions must be destroyed. However great the senatorial inertia, however difficult the abandonment of old practices, however pleasant the rewarding of loyal friends with the juicy plums of public office, the day of judgement is at hand. Civil service reform has been postponed long enough; the time for action has arrived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE SPOILSMEN | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...short time later he was interrupted by the voice of the toastmaster. After a long introduction the following words floated across the smoke-filled room: "It is now my privilege to present one whom you all know, none other than Coach Dick Harlow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...Women's cigarets which produce smoke in any desired color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...bombing of Adowa failed to give us any satisfaction, owing to the fact that there were only small huts, which flattened out without raising smoke or flames such as one could see in an American film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Fascist Heroes | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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