Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picard overruled the master. He held that time spent on actual production before the starting whistle should be paid for. This the judge arbitrarily set at seven minutes a man, awarded the workers a total of $2,415.74. This seemed a trifle, no more inportant than the puff of smoke that issued when the bottle was first opened...
...question [TIME, Jan. 13] as to what happens to a Dana perfume when Airwick ("the total deodorant") advertises too. One doesn't bring Airwick into the drawing room until the violin has been laid aside and the lady's perfume no longer matters, because of the smoke...
Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...
Over southern Luzon stands a plume of ashy smoke (see cut). Mt. Mayon in the Philippines has again blown its graceful top. Most other recent seismic unrest (earthquakes and volcanoes) has also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail, "is my work...