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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia court to handle estates, wills and trusts. Kingpin in any distribution of Henrietta Garrett's estate is stubby, scholarly Judge Allen M. Stearne, 54, who went to England to dig into the origins of the court in which he sits. No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion life's most delightful romances and amusing comedies are unfolded before our very eyes. . . ." Actual conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Snuff Dreams | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Victor) Smoke Dreams and Goo! But You're Swell*** by Benny Goodman. What! No swing from the "king?" It seems that he is leaving that so the jigs. This is still the best dance band to be heard and on this release Krupa's powerful rhythm with Helen Ward's singing help keep it at the top. O Benny! where is thy swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Platter Chatter | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...American states which would operate, in case of a European war, to prevent her from selling her beef, horses, sheep and foodstuffs to the belligerents. Since Argentina is going to sell, all American countries are very likely to do the same, and this week premiers, presidents and dictators may smoke that in their peace pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighborhood | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Nieto Del Rio put Messrs. Hull & Welles on a spot by declaring the U. S. had "abstained." They got off by insisting the U. S. had "withheld." In any case the U. S. is not having any League of Nations in its Good Neighborhood this week, and Geneva can smoke that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighborhood | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...rings around Edward VIII (smoke rings, no doubt-or is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year (Cont'd) | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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