Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, he had fetched far less: as a tyro with a Welsh burr, he had covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
From the Gold Coast came big names in wealth and society. They hurried into the church, holding their furs around their ears. Large-boned, narrow-eyed Slavs in Sunday-best waded through the slush from smoke-stained frame houses and brick tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied a solid 14 pews within St. Procopius'. The occasion: the four-hour investiture of Father Ambrose Ondrak as Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Procopius, one of 21 abbeys of the U.S. Benedictines. The investing prelate: Samuel Cardinal Stritch...
...victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...
...Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults that pass between Americans...
...punctuated with big Ifs. Some were as specific as alarm clocks. One forecaster, whose formula is based on tides, picked July 22, 1947, as the day for "a very sharp mark-down." Some said there would be no slump, just because it was being so widely heralded. All this smoke obscured the fire...