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Riots of hilarity greeted that single pointed quip in the salons of Washington and the smoking-rooms of the entire nation.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011
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Riots of hilarity greeted that single pointed quip in the salons of Washington and the smoking-rooms of the entire nation.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro David Tereshchuk 2011
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If your man is of the first type, bawdy humour will not help you—I shall never forget the hours which I wasted hours to me of unbearable tedium with one of my early patients in bars and smoking-rooms before I learned this rule.
"There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all." Ann Althouse 2008
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Ask the clubhouses, Have they smoking-rooms or not?
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Edinburgh, where he breathed an air that pleased him; and wherever he went, in railway carriages or hotel smoking-rooms, his strange, humorous vein of talk, and his transparent honesty, raised him up friends and admirers.
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They clustered round the tape or talked in groups in their smoking-rooms.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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At the Beargarden there were, — I was going to say, two smoking-rooms; but in truth the house was a smoking-room all over.
The Duke's Children 2004
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As for the once-desolate and disused ground floor of the building, it was now transformed, by means of splendid dining-rooms, reception-rooms, billiard-rooms, and smoking-rooms, into a palace by itself.
The Haunted Hotel 2003
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Lambert said within three months after the promulgation of the regulations smoking-rooms, not exceeding 25 percent of the total area of the premises, would have to be designated at work-places.
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The wine and water, with the addition of other stimulants, are then transferred to the billiard - and smoking-rooms, to which the gentlemen adjourn so soon as they have changed their black coats for dressing-gowns or lounging suits, in which great latitude is given to the caprice of individual fancy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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