Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have to put out fires in Federal buildings
...another part: "It was a hos night and we (Freshmen) opened the windows for an. There was suddenly a knock at the door, and 10 or 12 Seniors strode in. They closed the windows, sat down, each pulled out a big, black cigar and proceeded to smoke it. Pretty soon the room was unfit for living. We could not have lasted much longer when one Senior jumped up and hurried out the door. Leaving his supper on the doorstep, he disappeared...
...Romberg. Born 48 years ago at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, he started out to be a bridge engineer. The success of a composition called Soldiers of Mercy, dedicated to the Hungarian Red Cross, turned him toward music. The first tune he published in the U. S. was Some Smoke, a turkey trot, in 1913. Following year he wrote his first operetta, The Blue Paradise, and the first of his 19 Winter Garden shows. Of all the scores he has written in the past generation, he likes The Student Prince, The New Moon, Maytime and My Maryland best...
...smoke cleared after the Tech melee and the hockey team returned to practice yesterday, Joe Stubbs busied himself developing the team exactly as it was before the opener...
Fellow 4., ill at ease in society, hesitating manner--strictly a country boy--does not smoke--his passion is study; Fellow 5., serious minded, but with a large group of enthusiastic friends . . . listened to with respect . . . perhaps a little too serious...