Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...When smoke and cries of "Fire!" filled a Norwich, Conn, summer theater, Actress Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, ran true to the family form for crises. Stepping out of her role in The Philadelphia Story, she calmed the audience and told a few jokes while some burning rubbish was doused backstage...
...life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct...
Detectives, sheriffs and special investigators swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...
...Philadelphia Record . . ." It was in February 1947, during a Newspaper Guild strike, that Publisher J. David Stern abruptly sold his Record, two Camden (N.J.) newspapers and a radio station for $12 million to the rival Philadelphia Bulletin. Pot-bellied Publisher Stern retired to a Manhattan penthouse to chain-smoke Optimo Dunbar cigars and dictate his memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans. For $2,000,000, which his father helped him pay, Tommy last week bought the New Orleans...