Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more interested in getting "a four or five room unfurnished apartment than a Harvard man." But when pressed, she consented to specify what type of man need apply: "Crew hair-cuts and bow-ties are definitely out," she said. "I like tall, blond-haired men that wear tweeds and smoke pipes...
...Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel and eat an orange in this chamber, either...
...minor attacks during the week. But on Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...Smoke Screens & the Future. "The age of liberalism is dead, says the Monsignor. ... It is so dark, says Msgr. Sheen, that the liberals cannot even find the clock to see how late...