Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooty fog lay heavy over Pittsburgh. Smoke seeped into the steel and concrete canyons of the Golden Triangle, bringing the lights on early in the long rows of office windows. Occasionally a puff of snow swirled up from the grimy sidewalk...
Last week, having just finished revising his own eight-year-old South By, Thunderbird,* a journal of a South American plane trip, 51-year-old Professor Strode could take time out to puff away at his pipe and look at the record. Although he says of his course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year...
...Boston store has given SPB one moneymaking example. It bought surplus gas masks from SPB. From rubber tubes on the mask, it made bicycle handlebar covers; from the glass lenses it made workshop goggles; by painting the canisters it sold them as powder-puff holders. From what was left it made toy gas masks...
Turkish corners were the rage; puff-sleeved, pompadoured pinups from the pen of Charles Dana Gibson blossomed on college study walls; bicycling scorchers menaced pedestrians; and rural free delivery was about to be established by law. The year was 1895. The same year, the late, great, tragic scholar and editor Harry Thurston Peck (Twenty Years of the Republic) began publishing in the Bookman the first U.S. best-seller lists, compiled on the basis of sales in the nation's 30 or 40 leading bookstores...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...