Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smoke damage was heavy on both floors, O'Brien said. The Bat Club occupies the two floors above the Gold Coast Valeteria, which escaped the fire. Flames, however, were restricted to the second floor of the building, and O'Brien expects that the third floor will be in use again in a couple of days...
Dine by Candlelight. A Cygnet's life is ascetic: she may not smoke, wear trousers or enter a nightclub, and her few, heavily supervised dates are with escorts certified by her family. At the end of a gruelingly elegant day, Cygnets must dress ("looking as if they have washed too") to dine by candlelight at small tables rich with silver. Examinations test the sheen of the polish; this week the girls will be grilled on "table manners" or "arrangements and care of flowers as an indoor decoration," and "Why is it important for a magazine story to have...
Police Sergeant John McMahon spoted smoke issuing from a window at about 11:15 p.m. His alarm brought two hook-and-ladder units and three engine companies. Firemen entered through the Club entrance on Bow St. and fought the blaze from the interior...
...received from Byron in the "gold and azure days'" of their love affair. Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty, but its lush-styled orchestration is finally too heavy for a Williams fancy as languid as summer, as wispy as smoke...
...send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift he cannot eat, drink or smoke in one day. G.M. and many others still send gifts to valued customers and contacts, but they try to make the gifts useful, or at least personal-not the welter of ashtrays, cigarette lighters, wallets, swizzle sticks, canapes, pocket knives and glassware that usually piles up in the executive closet...