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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic as the gunpowder smoke that clouds the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Still in keeping with the general policy the old steel smoke-stack which previously helped to decorate the side of University Hall, has finally been removed. Smokeless since 1914, when use of the boiler plant in the basement of the building was discontinued, it had, nevertheless, remained a part of the Yard's scenery until this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Work Makes University Hall Clean and Safe for Many More Years of Intellectual Activity | 10/4/1934 | See Source »

...Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting the editorial shrieks of the papers as gross exaggerations, are going on a "smoke means fire" theory. Only at the universities, Chicago and Northwestern, does one find any vociferous support of New Deal Policies, but this is, of course, highly localized. The Middle West is veering to the right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/4/1934 | See Source »

...Magnificenze!" the slender, dark-haired Italian threw out his hands in an all-expressive gesture. It was Luigi Beccali, Olympic champion in the 1500 meters, who was speaking to an inquisitive audience of Boston newspapermen in the smoke-filled track room at Dillon Field House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Women Have Their Place in Italy, And We Put Them There,"---Beccali | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley who has long believed that "no lady would smoke." Mount Holyoke girls feel a profound respect for Miss Woolley and are proud to have her as their president, but they are a little tired of hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Sisters | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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