Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long black snout of a locomotive snuffled loudly and puffed rings and flowers of white smoke into a dark blue breezy evening. Bands played and the people of Rapid City cheered, waved, called "Goodby . . . Good-by Grace! . . . Good-by Cal. . . ." President Coolidge stood bowing and gesticulating; he made no speech, for already he had told the assembled population that "the hospitality that has been extended to us has been nothing less than remarkable. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge laughed and waved. Then the locomotive snout sneezed, the wheels began turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform...
...boarding house. He hears his mother's paramour beating her. Sound can aim a gun as well as sight. He shoots the man dead. Other murders go on here, too. In another cell a broken-hearted girl is being debauched. Gunmen and detectives prey upon the house. When the smoke clears Mrs. Bowman hangs out her ROOMS FOR RENT sign. Indeed, she has many a vacancy...
...with and look at him, 200 miles away in Leeds in his dark room. They saw his long, hungry face with pince-nez and haystack hair, not perfectly but most recognizably reproduced. Over the telephone they asked him to light a cigaret. He complied, inhaled and blew clouds of smoke ?which his interlocutors could not see because infra-red rays penetrate smoke...
...first, until the long rhythms of a splendid imagination become apparent. Then, sustained overtones rise above the narrative?the bitter self-sufficiency of a betrayed Jew; the long-suffering humanity of a French monk in the wilderness; the earthy mysticism of aborigines who talk from hill to hill with smoke columns, declare war with muttering drums and ululate for a dying god when the sun is eclipsed...
Third day. Leaving Munich before the world was awake, they landed at Bejanija airdrome, Belgrade, Jugoslavia, late in the morning. They jumped out to stretch, smoke cigarets, eat luncheon, refuel their bird; planned to hop off almost at once for Constantinople. Reports of strong winds and fog directly in their path over Sofia forced caution. Disappointed, they slept in Belgrade. Schlee praised their plane as "more faithful than a woman...