Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special smoking room, in which Mr. Speed and reporters, off-duty smokers, smoke...
...probably have noticed just beyond Smith Hall toward the bridge going over to the Stadium two tall smoke stacks, 'It seems to me that. If we won the Yale game, or perhaps the Dartmouth game, since we play Yale in New Haven this year a good way to cerebrate would be dome quite simply by stringing a line of red flags across between the stacks. Everybody could see it coming back from the Stadium, and I think it would be an excellent symbol of the ascendancy of Harvard we all hope to see this fall...
...Fire; smoke, and echoes of combustion struck momentary fear in the hearts of P. B. H. guardians late yesterday afternoon. An alarm was turned in. Emergency bucket brigades were formed...
Arthur Richman's comedy is ill-illumined insomuch as it fails to provide the electric brilliance of witty, speeches which must accompany such efforts. Its sophisticated persons light their cigarets with the elan that should precede an epigram; then they blow the smoke out as if they were at home. The company is distinguished: A. E. Matthews, the hero of a thousand stage affairs, is the detective who telephones to the cuckold, assuring him that in a week at latest he will have grounds for a New York State divorce. The cavorting adulteress is Mary Boland...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...