Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight, in the middle of a baseball lot on the outskirts of Manhattan, stood a squat man in a blue suit. He lifted up his face toward the dark cave of a stadium risen out of a cigaret smoke, peopled with 40,000 ghouls. Enormous lights concentrated their white, sterile fire upon his stubby head. On each side of him, in the opposite corners of a roped square, sat a boxer. On his right was a young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair...
...blue suit, that he haa been bested, he knew also that he had been the cleverer of the two, that he had put up a gallant defense. He did not think that they would take his title away on so slight a margin. Neither did the 40,000 smoke-veiled phantoms. That is why they booed when the squat man raised his right hand, gave the title to Berlenbach...
Hide and seek in the Pacific, Whites against the Greens, dummy torpedoes speeding at dreadnaughts, airplanes hovering aloft directing gun fire, spotting mine fields, destroyers spreading smoke screens, submarines diving and popping up from the deep; battle, murder and sudden death-these were the scenes, last week, as two divisions of the U. S. fleet played their war games off Hawaii like a school of sea-lions. In the wake of the fleet, with headquarters on the Islands, were Senators, Congressmen, newspaper correspondents. Much of the games between the Greens and the Whites they could not see. But, on land...
...exposed himself to court martial and dismissal and was actually forced to resign his position, we would surely have lost the war with Germany. I realize that I am laying myself open to the charge of being conceited and egotistical." The Commerce men peered eagerly through the after-dinner smoke. The game old Admiral was evidently about to utter things even more provocative than his recent diagnosis of women as the cause of all war. The second cigars had nearly expired when the Admiral's reedy voice attacked his concluding crescendo : "We won the War. though by the narrowest...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...