Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smust-a combination of smoke and dust...
From its clattering bowling alleys to its reeking card rooms, Bensinger's Recreational Amphitheater on Chicago's Randolph Street is a male refuge in a world that is rapidly going to the dolls. There, fly-blown velvet curtains shut out the flickering neon of The Loop; cigar smoke hangs like a grey curtain of decency between the elbow benders and the ripe, oil-painted nudes behind the bar. Cluttered with old-fashioned sporting prints and spittoons, Bensinger's is a comfortable clubhouse for pool sharks, poker players, three-cushion wizards, and foul-air fiends of every variety...
...newspaper work, he became editor of the New York Aurora two months before his 23rd birthday, lost the post two months later. Young Whitman's writing was prissy and preachy. His first and only novel was a hack temperance tract. Walt's stock advice: "Swear not! Smoke not! And rough-and-tumble...
...gain advance information about examinations. In one method, a member of the tutoring group would go to the examination, while all the others gathered with a tutor nearby. After glancing over the questions for a few minutes, their confederate inside would stroll nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial group would then march to the examination hall, explain that they had slightly overslept, and demand...
...from the ceiling; food can be carried outdoors on a serving cart powered by a battery. With dual-control ovens, a meal can be started in the kitchen and finished from an adjoining patio. For barbecues in the house there is a special gadget that passes charcoal or hickory smoke through the oven...