Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Done. In Portland, Ore., Robert Kuhn advertised in the Oregon Journal: "Veteran, wife, 10 dogs, 3 female cats, alligator, desire small furn. apt. We drink, smoke, stay up all night beating kettledrums." He got 25 offers...
Peggy Cummins, Hollywood's blonde Amber, gave her inflammable all to a bedroom scene, and smoke billowed up from the floor. Just a short circuit in the wiring...
...dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where the band plays Friday nights. Said he last week: "The electric drum doesn't drink or smoke, doesn't try to date my waitresses, and doesn't come in late...
Canoes, Then Babies. The consequence is that Raven has spare time on his hands, and little better to do than think and dream. His genius begins to glow. One day, while holding some skins about a fire, he notices the smoke rising straight in the air. A great moment in history: "He did not realize that he was making the first chimney." Another great moment: Raven idly chips away with a flint knife on a fallen log, decides to try an experiment...
...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...