Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigarette left on a sofa in the Fly Club. Holyoke Place, sprang into flame at 12.30 o'clock this morning and summoned three engine companies to the scene. A few minutes' work by the firemen extinguished the blaze with small damage. Smoke and water wrought some havoc with the interior...
...longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against...
...trying to learn arithmetic. The superintendent had him trained to keep accounts. At 21 Robert Dollar was a lumber camp boss. He got $26 a month and saved his money. He began to pay installments on a farm, bossing a camp of 60 lumberjacks. "I never had to smoke or drink to make them know I was the boss...
...Majesty is vexed by the fact that several fireplaces in Buckingham Palace draw imperfectly and smoke...
...Birmingham show, last week, the King-Emperor inspected carefully a display of "electric fires." It was then that he complained of smoke, in Buckingham Palace. Turning to the Queen, whom he calls "May" (short for Mary), he said: "I really wish that I had one of these electric thingumbobs in my room...