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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest step in the police drive to apprehend the four men who pulled the smoke bomb stickup followed hard on the heels of Tuesday's arraignment of Nicholas Mavrides, 39, of 38 Prince Street, Cambridge, on charge of having participated in the holdup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Hunt Owner of $8000 Cache as Coop Theft Suspect | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

...robbery, executed under the cover of two smoke bombs, seized funds that had just been delivered to the Coop for check cashing purposes. Over 200 customers and 75 employees were in the Coop building at the time of the holdup, but most of them, distracted by the first smoke bomb, failed to realize what was going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Sets Bail of $120,000 For Coop Robbery Suspect | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

Students in Eliot and Kirkland dropped their books and left their early suppers late Sunday afternoon to watch seven fire engines stifle smoke and stench pouring through the yard between the two Houses from refuse cans which no one claimed to recognize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Blaze Rouses Residents In Eliot, Kirkland | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Old Faces | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

During the regular school year, the girls run an involved Student Government, and have organizations ranging from the YWCA to a Drum and Bugle Corps. They also possess a Retummoe Club (Retummoe is "commuter" spelled backwards) for social gatherings. In the Retummoe Room, the girls may smoke, "if done with discretion." However, Regulation G warns that "Sargent College is definitely opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages." A girl who drinks on the sly may easily be expelled. In the months of June and September, students adjourn to the college camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire, or soccer, hockey, lacrosse, speedball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I Was a Frail 97 Pound Weakling . . ." | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

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