Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draw on the knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss of Cohn is like the loss of a dozen battleships...
Centenarians differ widely in their views of what helped them to live so long. One will say it is because he smoked, drank, and another that it is because he did not smoke or drink. One old lady gave the credit to having had apple pie for breakfast every morning. But most would agree with the 103-year-old man in McHenry, Ill. who said: "If you want to live long, never lose your temper." What do they eventually die of? Not, as a rule, from the diseases of old age. It seems to Dr. Dunbar that most of them...
...Bevan was a changed and embittered man. Ever since he broke with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...
...Parliament, Bevan sulked in the Smoke Room, declaring with fierce obstinacy: "I'll fight the blighter year after year if necessary." He shook off friends who pleaded with him to withdraw and run instead for his sure seat (representing the constituency parties) on the party's National Executive...
Both as politician and social animal, Mendès was a lonely man in these years. "There's a certain interior coldness about him," admitted one of his few close friends. His austerity was somehow impressive in itself. He does not smoke, dance or gorge. "He's a great believer in the American drugstore," said a friend, "because he can eat a little and quickly." In Paris, he is rarely invited to theater premieres or fashionable salons. "Getting choice invitations requires work," says one Parisian hostess. "Pierre doesn't go around complimenting people. He just doesn...