Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman of their race has yet resisted him. The scene is the climax of Johnnie, a jazz opera now the hit-show of Vienna. One night last week, race-conscious Austrian students rebuked the decadence of an audience which was applauding Johnnie by tossing from the balcony numerous assorted smoke, stench and sneeze bombs...
...paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
Then a knot of people collects suddenly at one side, looking and pointing up at a window. You go to see what they see. Up in the window, against a background of glowing smoke, a man is trying to raise the sash...
Advertisement for Marlboro cigarets: statue of a tall, bronzed woman, smoking a Marlboro; at her left, a man stands with a cigaret of similar brand drooping between his fingers; in the day time, smoke, from an invisible source, curls from the mouths of both figures; by night, the ends of their cigarets glow with an electric fire...
Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...