Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania State College, seven students have gallantly sacrificed themselves to "tobacco testing". Each of them will smoke thirty-six cigars, made of specimens grown on experimental farms, and report on the "burning quality, taste, aroma and character...
John Sargent is the only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument is as British an institution as Westminster Abbey. To be honored by either, artists have had wait for death...
Violence - Nerves -Diplomatic Smoke Screens - Hints of Peace France. Premier Poincairé reiterated his statement that French troops will be withdrawn in proportion to the payments received from Germany. He also confirmed the Government's firm intention to examine in a spirit of equity any serious proposals addressed to it directly by the German Government. Answering interpellations from the Left in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincaré remarked: "It is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation! [Laughter from the Radicals.] We went into the Ruhr to get reparations and for no other reason. We will leave...
...capital of Italy a fortnight ago was to propose a basis for a Ruhr peace settlement. The attitude of Italy and Belgium to the Ruhr question, combined with a visit of the Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Jaspar, to Milan, where he conferred with Mussolini, make the diplomatic smoke screen fairly transparent. It is the most unlikely thing in the world that the Belgian statesman came expressly from Brussels to exchange nonsensical urbanities with the Italian premier over an afternoon cup of tea. There was a reason, and it was to discuss the German peace proposition. The offer which Stinnes made...
...hand and the Gatun Spillway was blown to pieces by an avalanche of bombs. Then south from Culebra came the Black fleet, driving the Blue fleet before it down the Pacific Coast. Panama Bay was swept of mines and the Blacks proceeded to the bombardment. Laying down a smoke screen, the Black fleet battered the land batteries with its fourteen-inch guns from a range of 30,000 yards-5,000 yards beyond the range of the forts. Then, drawing closer, it destroyed the Miraflores locks with its longest range guns, while 82 fourteen-inch guns concentrated on the forts...