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...many imaginative American entrepreneurs advertise: "Add a Fifth Freedom, freedom from---," and fill in the blank with such items as catarrh, termites, furnace-stoking, or more generally, toil of any kind? Surely a body devoted to general human welfare, such as the UN, cannot afford in its concern for the great to forget the small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Forgotten Freedoms | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...

Author: By S. A. Karnow, | Title: Circling the Square | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...desperately that she muffed an easy word: desperately. (She made it "desparately.") The official pronouncer tried to soothe jangled nerves: "Relax, don't get excited. Have some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelldown | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For a Good 5d. Smoke | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

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