smokerette

Example Sentences

• "A unique departure will be made at the convention in abandoning the time-honored smoker for a smokerette, which the ladies will be invited to attend. Special “cigars” are being prepared for the ladies and the committee in charge predicts that every lady present will “smoke.”"
• "Secretary Randall: While we are waiting for the gentleman, I would like to make an announcement or two. There will be a smokerette this evening which is a complimentary entertainment given by the Local Committee on Entertainment. […] President Salmen: Ladies and Gentlemen—We have been feasting on good things. In fact, it has been a feast ever since we came to New York. One of the feasts that appealed to me especially was what we had last night at the smokerette. I hope, if I am privileged to attend another brickmakers’ convention, we will have a smokerette, because we want the ladies with us."
• "The smokerette, which was announced for Wednesday evening, March 7, was well attended, the ladies being present."
• "We have paid a lot of attention to the social side of this convention, and as a member of the local committee I would like to announce the smokerette for tonight."
• "Following the plan developed in recent conventions, the society, which is composed of seven industrial divisions, convened in one general gathering and for a banquet and smokerette. […] A smokerette on Tuesday evening at which approximately 600 ladies and gentlemen were present, and a theatre party on Wednesday evening completed the social features of the convention."
• "Tuesday evening a smokerette was held in the ballroom of the William Penn. Dancing followed entertainment, which varied from “community” singing to the reading of a very serious paper on the “Plasticity of Clay” by Dr. B. Rouhland, a German scientist scheduled to appear before the Terra Cotta Division on Wednesday, but granted permission by Dr. Tillotson to speak on this occasion."