Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh late at night, in a line of smoke-stained houses on a miserable street, the darkness was broken by a single orange oblong, the doorway of a Chinese laundry. Two short, stocky men were perceptible, for a moment, in its glow. They shot the laundryman where he toiled over his ironing board, then stepped back into the darkness...
...second act, ending with the shooting is rife with tension which explodes as the play ends in a blare of red fire. For the girl has dis. covered treachery in her fisherman and repays it by exploding a gas drum and nearly blowing him off the lighthouse. Smoke and screams fill the theater. The witnesses seemed to like it. There are several good performances, not the best of which was Blanche Yurka's as the lighthouse keeper...
...follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...north side of Atlantic City, N. J., fringing the smoke-blackened Pennsylvania railroad yards, row on row of frame houses slouch over the street like ragged standees at a free-lunch counter. In the daytime, almost no one can be seen along that street, but at night the doors of the rickety houses open and the occupants come forth. Their black faces blend adeptly with the night; their bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...