Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger got out a joint issue. Over the stadium at Soldiers Field a plane wrote in smoke: "H. vs. P. Good friends." After the game, the two squads dined together. Accompanied by such amenities, the first Harvard v. Princeton football game in eight years found Harvard just where it was in 1926, when Princeton's Jake Slagle ran wild and his teammates were accused of using seal rings. A recovered fumble gave Harvard's Fred Moseley a chance to reach Princeton's 49-yd. line in the second quarter. That was the only time Harvard...
Warned by the heavy smoke which quickly seeped throughout the building several men rushed to the top floor with extinguishers and soon had the flames under control. They then turned their attention to the unfortunate student who was forthwith extricated from his perch...
Everyone cheers. The crowd goes wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...
...Film money and hence had no right to them. And finally it was argued that the "double print" and "sprocket" processes for recording and reproducing sound-the prime points of dispute-were not entirely fundamental and could be circumvented by smart sound-engineers by the time the smoke of litigation cleared. Nevertheless no one denied that R. C. A. Photophone and Western Electric's Electrical Research Products were holding conferences behind locked doors, or that the latter found it necessary to reassure exhibitors that they would be protected according to contract from having to pay damages or that...
...crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large dusky family, all he wants to eat, drink, smoke, a good library, a reputation that brings every foreign visitor to his door. But he is not happy. Said he to Seabrook, as the upshot of his life's experience: "In the end it is not well...