Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high seas, 300 miles southwest of San Francisco, two six-pound shells from the U. S. Coast Guard boat Algonquin splintered the deck of the Federalship, a Canadian rumrunner flying the flag of the Republic of Panama. When the smoke cleared, Captain Stewart S. Stone of the Federalship stood upon her bridge with his hands up, signifying surrender. His ship was towed into San Francisco. On board were 12,500 cases of Scotch whiskey valued at $1,000,000 and 19 young adventurers...
Said Mrs. Edge with a wise smile: "Not even the Vice President of the United States can smoke his pipe at this dinner table. You smoke a cigaret. You cannot smoke your pipe in this room, until the dinner is over and everybody but yourself has a chance to escape...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...
...smoke in the presence of a lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...
Fire engines sirened their way up to the Kuhn, Loeb building at Pine and William Streets, Manhattan, last week. People went running. There was a fire in the building basement. Firemen on trucks swore at the pedestrians. The smoke was very thick. It smelled catastrophic. Firemen on foot, carrying extinguishers elbowed? passage through the crowds. Policemen were angry. Gum-chewers gaped. There were at least 15,000 Wall Street clerks there, crowded so thickly that they forced Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s employes to fight their way out of the smoked banking offices to watch their own fire...