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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banned from Vassar's campus are alcoholic beverages, student-owned automobiles. But the young women are free to drink discreetly in designated Poughkeepsie saloons, smoke almost anywhere they please, stay out late at night, get married while still undergraduates. With President MacCracken determined to make responsible adults of them, they have attained almost complete self-government. Campus potentates are the president of Student's Association, the chief justice of Student's Court...

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

Colonist "Roberts"--Fresh from a successful run on Broadway this is acclaimed as one of the better costume musicals. Unless you simply can't stand hearing any more about smoke getting in your eyes don't miss this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...delightful music of Jerome Kern that makes "Roberta" the pleasant musical comedy that it is. Although the strains of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" may be rather tiring to some by this time, the score remains entirely satisfying even without benefit of the complete freshness which it had several months...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/26/1934 | See Source »

Colonial: "Roberta"--fresh from a successful run on Broadway this is acclaimed as one of the better costume musicals. Unless you simply can't stand hearing any more about smoke getting in your eyes don't miss this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

...height of his fame as the most powerfully emotional preacher of his day. Classmates who met Elliott Speer five years out of college found an affable young man no less religious but well-geared to his own generation. Northfield quickly felt his liberalizing touch. He allowed his boys to smoke, to have parties, to visit the girls at the sister school. Energetic and able, he launched a $3,000,000 fund-raising campaign, carried it to success despite the early intervention of Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Northfield | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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