Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played, a hand of a different nature. One man was put into University Hall to control the financial end of affairs. It was the first tangible evidence of a change, evidence which was to be followed shortly by other signs. Nor were they long in coming, for before the smoke had cleared, came the news of Mr. Endicott's leave, a leave which could only be construed as a definite retirement from active office, precedent to the discontinuance of the position. There was no question of Mr. Endicott's ability or integrity, but few were unable to see through...
...Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...Rinconada, Spain, what sounded like a low-flying plane sent Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"--Brunswick recording. The hit tune from "Roberta" has Ruth Etting as its latest booster. Purely vocal and quite sentimental. The backing is "Three Little Piggies Went To Market." A mistake that Miss Etting was bold enough...
Charges of sabotage in handling army planes have not been publicly proved and the airplane companies have caused investigations to be made to determine the source of such rumors, which may have been started as a smoke screen behind the tragic deaths of army flyers...