Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth run of the Palace's double feature, many of Local 802 were asleep. Others massed in the men's room to eat, smoke and converse. Somebody connected with the theatre turned off a water-cooler. A musician called up the Board of Health and had it turned back on. RKO, however, made no promises. At 2:45 a. m. most of the musicians had gone home...
...colorless affair where little was done but review finances, re-elect the man who has headed the order since 1903-Adolphus Robert Talbot. Big-featured President Talbot is a 78-year-old lawyer who was once the partner of William Jennings Bryan. A strait-laced Methodist, he does not smoke, drink, chew or play cards. Having fathered two daughters and a son, he lives with his wife in Lincoln, Neb., likes to putter with flowers. His chief boast: neither the Modern Woodmen or any other top-flight U. S. fraternal insurance society has ever failed...
...harbor entrance. Flagship was reported to be the Admiral Scheer, sister of the Deutschland. For over an hour this squadron proceeded to pour high explosive shells into the stucco & light brick houses of Almeria. Leftist shore batteries replied until they ran out of ammunition. Then under a smoke screen the Nazi fleet, honor satisfied, steamed off towards Melilla in Rightist Morocco...
...Drink plenty of wine from childhood on, spend a week with a barrel of oysters and a turkey, drink a bottle of champagne for luncheon, smoke all you want. My other rule for a long life is to kill my doctor...
...strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same, it was a lonely feeling to see the Arabella getting smaller-first the size of a rowboat, then the size of a barrel, then nothing but a smudge of smoke...