Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garson lives in Pittsburgh; he paints his city. Painter Garson has listened to many factory whistles; he has seen, morning after morning, night after night, the black smoke from a thousand chimneys besmut the sky. The grim force that animates this activity of whistles, furnaces, chimneys, smoke awes and angers him; its meaning, if it has any, eludes, and he gropes for it o blazing, sultry canvases...
...SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS?Selected by Wilfred Partington?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Some hold that Old King Cole's wide reputation as a ban vivant rests largely upon the gusto with which, in enumerating his postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth...
These apocryphal invaders swept down upon nearly 60 ships of the U. S. Navy, steaming at 20 miles per hour. Of a sudden, the fleet buried itself under a mountain of smoke and fire, black and yellow with a glean of crimson. For six minutes?it seemed six hours? tons of steel hurtled through the black smoke?some of it went in long low curves ten miles toward "the enemy ships," some went in steep parabolas toward the enemy aircraft. When all was calm, it was apparent that the enemy ships were well smashed. But the airplanes? According to Lieutenant...
...outskirts of Tokyo-a city slowly rising from the ruins wrought by the seismic cataclysm of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.)-smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began...
...demonstration which will take place about 12.30, weather permitting, is calculated to emphasize the importance of chemicals in future conflicts. Under cover of such a smoke curtain as will be produced, enemy aircraft could come up to their objective without discovery. The smoke-screen will be produced by ejecting half a ton of smoke-producing liquid from an airplane of special construction, which will be flown from Aberdeen, Maryland, for the purpose...