Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino citizen is complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral...
...that Harvard alone, out of 14 colleges surveyed throughout the country, consents to allow its student legislature to be chosen by appointment. If the elective procedure is capable of providing capable leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would preclude any concerted political activity...
Sleeping Turrets. Most startling feature was in the chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...
...rarity among millowners in the "Black Country." Many a third-or fourth-generation industrial family is as encrusted with habit and stifling tradition as their mill towns, nestling like ugly blackheads on the face of one of England's greenest regions, are encrusted with soot and smoke...
...teed off last week on Cleveland's Canterbury Club course, in the first Open since 1941. The old hands had brought along some liquid companionship for locker-room nerves. The new school of war-born par-smashers caught the taut feeling too, though most of them did not smoke, much less drink. The standard cure was Bromo-Seltzer; in advanced stages phenobarbital...