Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given to each pupil, the courses being carefully graded, evidently to fit the needs of the child as he progresses through the elementary stages he is to learn in kindergarten into the intricacies of intermediate and advanced prohibition. At six he will be taught to avoid alcohol and tobacco. Having grown proficient at this, he is ready for a more detailed study. He is soon to be taught that cigarettes discolor the fingers and that whiskey makes noses read, which subject suggests laboratory work for that year. In due course he reaches the advanced courses to be given...
...program follows: Peg-a-Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...
...uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details of flooors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning afters from nicotine orgies. The alumnae had no comeback; they meekly agreed to this drastic...
...brief program of about an hour's length will appear, in addition, various piano selections, songs, and a class prestidigitator. Coffee and doughnuts will be served with the usual cigarettes and tobacco...
...correspond with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs to 150,000,000; 4) Finally the bilingual and bicultural unity of Alsace-Lorraine is constantly being cemented by such newspapers as The Latest News, of Strasbourg, which is printed daily...