Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yard touch football scoring records went up in smoke yesterday as Holworthy rolled over Claverly, 36-6, in the top game of three played. The win boosted Holworthy into second place in the American League race...
According to Blamire, no measure have been taken as yet to provide some for of smoker for the 28 residents. "Why can't they smoke in the kitchen?" he said. "It's ventilated...
...wealth was not the whole explanation. There were all sorts of signs that the country had been moving, amid the smoke and sound of great events, into a new kind of era. Many a citizen had assumed that the U.S., having experienced the century's second world war and its second era of Democratic Administration, would automatically run through a kind of repeat performance of the 1920s. Actually, the dissimilarities between the two periods were striking...
...Harvard had voted in the Spring of 1920, the election would have gone, eight years prematurely, to Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...