There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face
She pretended not to notice, she was caught up
in the race
‘If men can take it, so can we’: Young GOP women take up cigars, spittoons, and endless rounds of poker to enjoy low-key ‘smoker’ on threshold of WWII’
“Smoke and poker: The young Republicans are engulfed in a thick cloud of smoke as they play poker (and sneak a peek at one card shark’s hand)…
Many of the women preferred smoking out of corncob pipes, but said: ‘It wouldn’t do in Milford.’ They bravely made do as the air became thick with blue and white smoke from cigar and pipe smoke. ‘If men can take it, so can we,’ they said. By the end of the night, cigarette butts littered the floor as empty cuspidors lay around. Everyone deemed the night a wild success. The porters said they hadn’t seen so many cigarette butts since the Firemen’s Convention of 1938.”