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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the impression that the Legion, while outwardly trying to organize some sort of fascist party, is really doing nothing more than throwing up a smoke-screen to camouflage their annual drunken spree. Truly the government is in the hands of the rabble. One day we shall awake and find the State House dome is missing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dickinson, Demon Red Gig Speedster, Complains of Modern False Patriotism | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

...discovery of the records was the finding of a cigar among the pile of papers. Close by was a note bearing the inscription, "This was the last cigar which Edwin Booth ever held in his mouth." The teeth marks were still apparent, for, though forbidden by his doctors to smoke, the dying actor was not to be denied the pleasure of keeping the cigar in his mouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historical Recording of Edwin Booth Placed in Harvard Theatre Collection | 12/6/1935 | See Source »

...which they led. In passing, Author Sullivan demolishes a few legends. Boss Boise Penrose, he reveals, did not dictate Harding's nomination from his Philadelphia sickbed. It was a newshawk, not Harry Daugherty, who predicted that the Republican nominee would be chosen by "15 men in a smoke-filled room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Average American | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Sandy Valley by Clyde Singer, a landscape in the manner of John Steuart Curry in which an incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Proletarian Gloom | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Wichita, Kans., seized by police for giving her four-year-old son a cigaret to smoke in a bus, Mrs. Harold Young, 29, of New York City, complained, "What's the kid to do to pass away the time if he can't smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Widow | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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