Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large oil engine which is directly connected with a powerful electric generator ; the latter in turn drives four electric motors. Thus, although the locomotive uses electric power to pull its loads, it needs no third rail or overhead wire, but contains its own powerhouse. There is no smoke raised by its operations, and a muffler renders them relatively quiet. Like an automobile, it is necessary to operate the engine only when the locomotive is in use; at other times fuel is saved...
...heartless action of a New Jersey Borough Council, Princeton has suffered a loss which her sons must feel very keenly. For years past it has been the undergraduate custom to smoke in both the local moving picture houses during the progress of the evening's entertainment. This seems a slight thing, and is a measure which has often been urged by patrons of the more popular resorts along Washington Street in Boston. When in addition it is something which has been done by one's forbears time out of mind, or at least since the invention of the cinema...
...this must vanish into the limbo of forgotten rites. The conviction of the Princeton Borough Council that where there is smoke there must sooner or later be fire is undeniably sound; insurance companies will breathe more freely, and so, one imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...
Nowadays the chemists have found other materials to take the place of white phosphorus, so that the "strike- anywhere" match has become a fairly digestible article. White phosphorus still finds use, however, to improve the vacuum in electric lamps, in making rat poisons, and, in smoke screens, for when a shell filled with it bursts, the phosphorus catches fire instantly and sprays its flaming drops in every direction, sending up a cloud of dense white smoke...
...Stanford White, connoisseur of beauty in art and women, already had won her. Her hair as black as smoke in the night, her eyes limpid and violet, her under lip full and tremulous, her bosom shallow as the chest of a growing boy, her experience that of a woman much older, she held out her arms to the wastrel Pittsburgher and he rushed into them...