Word: acrid
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...with banners, assembled to make speeches, sing the "Internationale." President Hoover, writing busily at his desk had announced that the demonstration was not to be interfered with "unless they become disorderly." One William Lawrence, agitator, attempted to climb the White House fence. Police judged the incident sufficiently disorderly, threw acrid tear gas bombs, charged the crowd with blackjacks, arrested eleven men, two girls, started a panic among spectators...
...Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...years the bleak crater of the volcano of Santa Maria has jutted high in the backbone of the Sierra Madre, breathing acrid vapors against the blue Guatemalan sky. Never since the eruption of 1902 has it done much more than that. Planters grew used to the rumblings of Holy Mary, dug through the sterile crust of lava on her flanks to plant coffee bushes in the rich soil beneath. In recent years aviators have used the white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American...
...bearers in archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine torches, walked the Prime Minister of Japan and his Ministers...