Word: smokin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nervousness - possibly pusillanimity. Petrillo, who gave up smoking a year ago, suddenly started chainsmoking at the House Labor Committee hearings (see cut). Said he: "I didn't start smokin' till the day of the investigation and I'm still dizzy. Still smokin'. I'm gonna quit tomorrow...
...love." Like a breath of spring, a faint note of optimism crept in; somebody mentioned that old Hughie Casey had concocted a new and very secret pitch. "Gonna win twenty games, he says." But it was just a breath and it died on the next remark: "What ya been smokin', bud, mario-wanna...