Word: rauchen
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...everyone suddenly jumping on the antismoking bandwagon? After all, critics have been proclaiming the dangers of smoking for hundreds of years. King James I of England in 1604 branded the habit "loathsome." Even Adolf Hitler was a fanatical opponent of tobacco; signs declaring DEUTSCHE WEIBER RAUCHEN NICHT (German women do not smoke) were posted throughout the Third Reich during World...
...encounter with the Dada movement, he made art out of stamps, trademarks, slogans, coins, buttons, torn-up photographs and headlines, used for punning or oblique meanings. He hunted bric-a-brac in the streets, even carried a small screwdriver, which he once was caught using to detach a "Rauchen Verboten" sign from the back of a streetcar...