Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes really are cancer-breeding coffin nails, is it a sin to smoke them? Last week, in Notre Dame's Ave Maria magazine, a top-ranking canon-law expert, the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Washington's Catholic University, sifted ashtrays in a search for moral wrong. Nonsmoker Connell's canonical conclusion: it takes a lot of puffing to make a cig a sin-generally three packs...
...wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (Elsa Lanchester; Hifirecords LP). A fey, offbeat collection of songs both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
Although he said that he was not recommending that people be forbidden to smoke cigarettes, he suggested that the tobacco industry committee "take a cue from the experience of the liquor industry after Prohibition and at least counsel moderation in smoking...
...Cure. Near Olney, Ill., irritated by wasps that buzzed around the barn, Farm Hand Harold Weber decided to smoke them out, burned more than 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, 200 loads of manure, a utility shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline and the barn...