Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that as soon as Uncle Sam and John Bull sit down together to smoke a quiet pipe of peace, one or the other always lets slip some inadvertent bit which blights their budding amity. Uncle Sam, with his bluff, outspoken manner, has been charged most frequently with this offense, but now there can be no doubt that John has been the offender. However happy Americans have felt over the settlement of the British debt question, they cannot but take umbrage now when London challenges New York's title to speed. Certainly nothing could teach them more nearly, and they...
...airplane which traced smoke letters in the sky yesterday to advertise a familiar commodity was probably not operated by a college man. Such skywriting is a final flash of old advertising methods with which the educated man had little sympathy. A new advertising is developing, however, in which he finds an acceptable place, in which the cultured man will actually be more valuable than the paperhanger and the circus band...
...Deutsche Tageszeitung, monarchist paper: " He (Bismarck) did not even know how to smoke a pipe...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...
...Manhattan an aeroplane wrote "Good Luck" in smoke overhead while Minnie Schlacht and Morris Zuckerbrod were being married...