Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, by the Bay of Naples, the constant trickle of smoke which flutters over Vesuvius grew larger and darker. At night, there were lovely pink sparks which proved most titillating to U. S. tourists. Neapolitans, however, paid scant attention. No serious eruption was anticipated...
...greatest of all the old still active fighters went last week to Lou Stillman's gymnasium in Manhattan to have a work out. Lou Stillman's gym is an attic, stuffed with smoke and people ; the people, when this fighter entered, looked with awe on his fat stomach and his burly arms...
...thousand men, haute voix, to perform a personal obligation. Under the new arrangement Harvard men who want to cheer their team before it meets Yale can still do so. The cheering will not, however, be done for a team at that moment striving to look dogged and breathe smoke. It will be done for a team that is in the Stadium, running through signals...
Clear headed peasants glanced anxiously at the sinister smoke-plume which rolled upward from Etna's crater, and darkened the sky over Mascali...
...Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time...