Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman was New York's Representative Ralph W. Gwinn; the dinner, sponsored by the Rental Housing Federation of Boston Real Estate Board, was excellent. By 8:30, cigar smoke filled the air and an injudicious mixture of highballs and beer stimulated a high level of noise from the table behind us. But Gwinn's voice, deep and sincere, quieted them down quickly. His subject was how to limit federal taxing power and stop government socialism and, although sponsored by one of the nations' more vociferous lobbies, he addressed himself to "the ordinary, unorganized, politically uninfluential citizen...
Robinson was happy at Harvard, if a bit of a social duffer. Women terrified him (he was to remain a bachelor all his life), and he felt that dancing lowered a man's "natural dignity." Painfully shy, he preferred to "smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold...
Curiosities make up a good part of the collection. A special glans case houses the cigar that Edwin Booth was about to smoke when he died of a heart attack, and there is also the death mask of the great British actor, Edmund Koan...
...actresses gives an intimate glance at "life upon the wicked stage" as practiced on the old Mississippi show boats. The regulations included a "$5 fine for fishing off boat," and "Actresses must not go around scantily clad, because this is not a beriescue show," and "Ladies, if you must smoke, do so in private as we do not want...
...Pierpont Morgan the Elder ate his last meal in Shepheard's. To readers of adventure stories the world over, Shepheard's was a pulsing heart of romance and intrigue. To most Britons, Shepheard's was Egypt. By last week's end, as clouds of black smoke swirled from more than 150 fires in embattled Cairo, Shepheard's was a smoldering, wasted ruin...