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In the 1970s she called the smoke-filled kitchen of her tiny flat in Moscow "the inn of merry beggars" after the dissident writers and intellectuals who crammed into it, seeking her help.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

Etymological detour ahead, please skip if it bores you: These types of negotiations used to take place in what was originally called "smoke-filled back rooms" -- but of course, the rooms are now smoke-free.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama's Fourteenth Option Chris Weigant 2011

Etymological detour ahead, please skip if it bores you: These types of negotiations used to take place in what was originally called "smoke-filled back rooms" -- but of course, the rooms are now smoke-free.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama's Fourteenth Option Chris Weigant 2011

More minor works, such as a copy of Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan, and Palma's Venus and Mars, both given in 1838, were hung in the director's smoke-filled office.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

One of the best arguments is protection of workers, because now people don't have to work in smoke-filled rooms.

Maybe I just need to buy my own hookah... Nicole 2009

Frightened passengers clawed their way through the smoke-filled cabin and most managed to escape before the explosion.

Russia orders halt to Tu-154B flights after fire 2011

The same is true with juried awards - I don't mind knowing what the group in the smoke-filled room thinks, but I'm not going to live my life by it.

Are Book Awards Useless? 2009

In the final battle scene's smoke-filled frieze of flesh, she melds beauty and violence, eroticism and lyricism in ways evocative of Akira Kurosawa's "Ran."

Taking Senses to the Extreme Lance Esplund 2010

And it's bad democracy: Collective bargaining, by its nature, moves public policy decision-making out of the legislature and into a smoke-filled room -- where an interested party, unelected and unaccountable, has undue leverage.

On and on and on Wisconsin 2011

His office was smoke-filled and lined with bookcases.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011