Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip...
...sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty of the U. S. in Slabs of the Sunburnt West...
...went Hearst's von Wiegand escorted by Red Militia. Wrote he afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side in a narrow and barricaded street only 180 yards from the Alcazar [fortress of Toledo]...From the battered, smoke-begrimed windows of the magnificent fortress the intermittent bursts of rifle and machine-gun fire, replying to the Radical Government besiegers, seem to have aroused the deepest hatred of the Red elements. ... As we passed the Archbishop's Palace one of my Militia escorts remarked, 'I'd like to hang...
...Russian or French air attack. For years Der Führer and German Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring have been staging the world's most realistic fake air raids, gouging holes in the middle of German streets in which fake air bombs are planted, exploding smoke bombs to simulate gas bombs, starting controlled fires resembling those ignited by Thermite bombs,* sending stretcher-bearers to bandage "wounded" Germans and handing gas masks around the Fatherland. Therefore last week the German people were among the ripest in the world for the surprise message suddenly delivered in Berlin by Colonel...
...board the Manhattan were nine tons of milk, 1,600 Ib. of peanut brittle. Athletes complained about their food the first day out, got permission to drink & smoke...