Word: fumings
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...light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...
...said that Hudson Maxim loved a good fight. Perhaps that is why he wrestled in his youth and boxed in his age. He exercised always, took tennis seriously and played it creditably. He preferred preparedness to pacificism; moderation to Prohibition; the odors of his laboratory to the per fume of bathing beauties ? he took the role of Father Neptune at the Atlantic City pageant only once...
...have here in Porto Rico such advertising, with this legend: "Fume el tabaco que su tierra produce" (Smoke the tobacco your land produces...
Because the Secretary of State for India is an arbiter of old port, new cravats and suave cigars, there is a snatch of recitative pretended to have issued from his lips in a fume of dilatory tobacco smoke...
...trainer looked at him in disgust, upbraided him. "Well, old man, you'd better get to like me," retorted the fresh kid, "because I'm going to be around a long time." Coming from a rookie, this was maddening. His name made old players froth, fume. But the manager approved. He signed the brash one for the season, and wisely. A sublime self-assurance, as any baseball players knows, is essential to one who would play the game...