Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied to the Cathedral Chapter forthwith for stained glass commissions, was investigated, put in charge of all the Cathedral's glass. Drawing on his exhaustive theoretical knowledge, Lawrence Saint tried to construct an oil-pressure glass furnace at Huntingdon Valley, got nothing more than a sinister blast of smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder...
...said to the old man one day: "How is it you smoke nickel cigars and Jimmy smokes $1 ones?" The old man said: "Well, he has a rich father...
...delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down from the murk upon the G. O. P.'s quadrennial passion play of politics...
...Guardsmen had treated Kansans like country cousins. Whether Alf Landon became President or not, the Convention of 1936 would be memorable as marking a radical shift in the Republican centre of gravity. "This is one convention," keynoted Landon's curly-headed Hamilton, "where there will be no smoke- filled room nomination...
PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...