Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is all very true, but why stop there? Why not add that a two-thirds majority was necessary to pass the proposal, thus Perry's dream of playing in tennis movies and defending the Davis Cup for England went up in smoke...
...Episcopalians are decidedly the best livers, eating, smoking and drinking as they see fit. The Catholic Church does not breed so many merry monks as some people think, but Catholic priests may smoke cigarets, take a nip now & then and let their waistlines go in middle age. In the evangelical clergy austerity prevails, and of the large evangelical denominations the one which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record...
...nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States." Resorting to a defense which he perfected to rebuff friends of Mr. Farley who hail him in hotel lobbies as "Jim," Mayor Smith quickly lighted a cigaret. But the crowd, unaware that Mr. Farley does not smoke, craned necks, goggled, clapped...
Soon he is settled in a corner and peering out into the boery cacophony that surrounds him. Smoke drifts and hangs. Hectored barmaids bustle wearily to help Harvard's demi-monde with its forgetting. High school heroes and prep school might-have-beens assure each other of what they might be doing now. Beacon Hill-climbers rub their barked shins unseen and unmolested. Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth...
...just that possibility of chaos which Herr Hitler had in mind and that motivated the present action in the last analysis. It was a smoke-screen whose effect was primarily for home consumption and, whichever way dispersed on the resulting gale was calculated to enhance the Fuehrer's prestige at home. That it has enveloped him in a mantle of masterful heroism rather than a martyr's shroud for the German people, is simply so much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated...