Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...
Fresh from the astronomers comes the news that a stupendous collision of many suns has taken place in the Constellation Lyra. In the telescope, they say, great clouds of nebular smoke and ashes are visible. And although our own sun and all its planets are headed in a straight line for this very crossroads of the universe, nobody seems much concerned. Partly through disbelief in the science of astronomy itself and partly through the urgency of things like the shortage of coal; the inclement weather, or diplomatic tussles with Turkey, people look askance, saying: "No matter, the scientists are always...
With the passing of the Dillingham restrictive immigration bill, otherwise known as the Quota Law, everyone concerned with the flood of European immigrants sottled back with relief, hoping that matters had been finally adjusted. But now, it seems, the snarl is worse than before, and from the smoke around Ellis Island comes more than one tongue of fire. The law itself is to blame, for it states that three per cent of every foreign group now resident in the country shall form the quota of each nationality admitted--nationality to be determined by birth. It is clear, concise...
...scene is usually some college club in the city--a big room full of smoke and graduates. At one end is a score-board and miniature gridiron, along which a colored counter is moved as the telegraph behind the board clicks off the plays hot from the real gridiron. There is also an announcer, who, by way of clarifying the message depicted on the board, reads the wrong telegram in a loud, clear tone...
...that there is a cheer. Late arrivals come in, radiating cold and looking for seats, asking every one they see what the score is and how the team has been playing up to that point. And when it is all over the meeting breaks up in a cloud of smoke, and the general opinion is that it was "some game...