Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
...myself, with the permission of my doctor, I smoke about 30 Pall Malls a day, more than half of which smolder away in the ashtray as I work at my typewriter . , . Never felt better in the past 20 years...
...ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence to place bets with bookies. Last week the ladies in the Royal Enclosure strictly observed the no-smoking rule, although a few were seen betting...
...When Parnassus on Wheels, a quaint little novel about an itinerant bookseller, was published back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give...
...mysterious smouldering underneath the front steps of Warren House brought three Cambridge fire engines to the House at noon yesterday, surprising Union diners. Firemen quickly chopped through the bottom step and quenched the smoke...