Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
...called "The Band of Gold," and has been recruited largely from the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The players (120 of them) are costumed in scintillating yellow uniforms. Their faces beam with merriment. They blow their horns with hilarious gusto. Their cheeks puff out like full-bloom peonies...
...session of the Senate oil investigation I hurriedly adjourned the hearing. Selden Palmer Spencer, senior Senator from Missouri, made emphatic objection. I turned sharply, shouted: 'Let me tell you, Sir, there is a real reason why I adjourned this hearing. I do not like that cigar you puff into my face...
...publisher of newspapers. In that respect William Randolph Hearst has the better of him. Mr. Hearst, ever watchful for financial gain, makes use of his newspapers to boost his magazines. To this Mr. Nast expresses no objection. But when Mr. Hearst's press undertook to puff Hearst magazines at Mr. Nast's expense, Mr. Nast rose in dignified wrath...
Next to the reprint of this puff patent, appeared the lie direct, subscribed by Condé Nast...