Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps and supply depots, 8,000-foot pillars of black smoke drifted in the still, frosty air. For once, the Reds were not going to capture Nationalist supplies...
Some of the older undergraduates, the letter admitted, had tried to stop the mob. One older boy, "indeed, performed an act of considerable courage when a smoke candle was thought to be endangering a child's life. Except for this," the Vice Chancellor concluded, "nothing can be said in extenuation of what must pass into University history as a shameful episode...
...place was crowded with more that people. Shades of Aunt Hagar and Sister. Kate filtered through the smoke and a lil ol' muskrat rambled in. For two solid hours in that staid Lowell House cubicle there were ladies of the new Orleans evening and the stale smell of K.C. gin. But for the grim visage of Abbot Lawrence Lowell above the fireplace it might have been any backroom in Chicago back in the days when Cicero was Cicero and not an essay in Life magazine...
Finland's Socialist government did not go out of its way to make the old Socialist leader's prison term uncomfortable. He got paper and writing material from his home, also any extra food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...
...board of managers" (directors) used to meet in cutaway coats and striped trousers. They used no first names, but ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...