Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says 60-year-old Mother Robinson: "My boy doesn't smoke, drink or gamble. He is a perfect gentleman and everybody who knows him loves him. He finds it hard to send me anything to live on here in New York because of the Russian laws that stop money from being sent out of the country. I manage, by the help of the Lord, to live after a fashion, but New York is a hard city to live in. Last year my boy visited me, so he could renew his American passport...
...house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke" was enthusiastically received...
...tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something on U. S. munitions makers. Ranged before them for examination were Vice Chairman Irénée du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., nonchalantly blowing smoke rings at his inquisitors; President Samuel M. Stone of Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.; Sales Manager Herbert F. Beebe of Winchester Repeating Arms Co.; President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms...
...Best of the interchanges took place between Senator Bennett Champ Clark and smoke-ring-blowing Irénée du Pont...
...Lowell House were pleasantly surprised when five of Cambridge's most modern fire engines congregated in front of the Owl Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...