Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visible wirepulling, showed no interest in kingmaking, and-except for visits with aging, trigger-tempered Teamster Chief Dan Tobin-he steered clear of smoke-filled rooms. With beet-faced vehemence, he denied a rumor which had gotten to Cincinnati before him-that he was hell bent to boot old Dan out of office and grab the teamsters' presidency for himself. "Mr. Tobin," he said, with dignity, "is like a father...
Bulldog & Champagne. Kirkland, the champion Harvard house, was matched against Yale's best, Berkeley College. Before the game was over, half the Harvard team had paused for either a smoke or a beer: it was that kind of game. Kirkland won, 21-12. But before the sun went down on the Charles River, seven Yale college teams had beaten Harvard teams. That night in Boston nightspots, the strains of Bulldog, Bulldog drowned out Fair Harvard, possibly because Yale men go in more for that sort of thing...
...Lemuel Shattuck, statistician and genealogist, wrote a report for the Massachusetts legislature that has become known as the "bible of public health in the U.S." He made 50 recommendations ranging from smoke control to pure food laws...
During her Broadway apprenticeship, back in 1918, Tallulah was regarded as a "most beautiful girl." Her hair came down to her knees, thick as a cloak. She had not begun to drink or smoke. ("I was a completely good girl in those days.") "But she was never simple," says Actress Estelle Winwood, one of her oldest friends. "She was as sophisticated then...
From Eliot House, however, there came a pat on the back for the adamant reaction to the "Boston socialite." "Good for you, boys," said an undergraduate. "The old girl underestimates her darling daughters. The poor girls probably have to smoke their cigarettes in a locked bathroom. I've been out with the type...