Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...
...They have called us names rais, grafters, politicians in their literature," he said. "If there is one thing I want to make clear, it is that I am not, nor ever was a politician," he continued. This defense brought applause, muffled somewhat by the cigar smoke...
...will hardly ever wear a tie or jacket and will smoke in class, and likely as not his professor will be smoking too. He will pass requirements in concentration and distribution, undoubtedly join the 17-sport intramural program, attend some 7:40 a.m. classes, and spend most of his social and extra-curricular life at his club...
Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
...enough when they started wearing pants. It was worse when they began using Brooks Brothers as a couturier. But nothing--not even being a Radcliffe student--should allow a girl to smoke a pipe...