Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heal Thyself. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., while rushing to fight a fire, Fireman Bimel Wheelis detected smoke fumes nearer home, discovered his own hat was ablaze...
Neither by Wig-Wag nor Smoke. John L. Lewis, who loves nothing so much as an uproar, composed his face in a lugubrious cast. "All American workers," he said piously, are entitled to as big a raise as he had got for his miners. "To restrict American labor to a miserable 10% increase ... is an unwise, arbitrary action ... destructive . . . disrupting to the productive economy...
...previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...
...Chirico contested the suit. He recalled that he had painted a similar picture with the same title back in 1913, but the train smoke in that one had been different. "I painted the smoke in the form of a globe," he said-not in the form of a small cloudlet. Art experts and three former owners of the painting pooh-poohed the distinction. After hearing the evidence, the court handed down its judgment: De Chirico had peevishly denied his own work, must pay costs plus 330,000 lire ($500) in damages...
Perhaps I may make so bold as to content that it is just as natural and normal not to smoke as to smoke, and if so, then is not the non-smoker entitled to read without being annoyed by fumes of strong tobacco, especially on a damp day, with all the windows closed...