PRAGUE — Christopher Robertson, the British owner of Robertson International Delicatessen, a food wholesaler and retailer with three shops in the Czech Republic, recalls the time that an American came into one of his shops to ask about its uzena zebra, which means smoked pork ribs in Czech.
"Eric has a great sense of stagecraft, and I don't mean smoke and mirrors," said the acclaimed actor John Douglas Thompson, who worked with Mr. Tucker at Shakespeare & Company after previously playing Othello to his Iago at Trinity Repertory in Providence, R.I., where they both trained.
And, when we say "smoked," we mean smoked.
Perfume — "per fuma" — means "through smoke," and where there's smoke, there needs to be purse-size perfume that can be discreetly applied anytime one of those duchesses comes into view.
I also perceived them as a means to smoke without the side effects of conventional smoking.
The view is an extension of Paul Grice's (1957) notion of natural meaning: unlike the English word 'fire,' which non-naturally means fire, smoke naturally means fire.
And a well-adjusted vent means the smoke draws up and out and away from eyes.
This, in turn, means more smoke per unit volume, and thus more tar and nicotine.
This means the smoke must be breathed in to the lungs, where the nicotine gets absorbed much quicker than it would through the mouth.
Choom means "to smoke marijuana," the book says, and as an active member of the Choom Gang, "Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends".
