Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond sat apart balancing the thin glass on the palm of his hand watching the streamers of smoke weave their changing patterns about the heads of his friends. He had loosed his collar and the green striped tie was bound about his head giving him an air of Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing...
...Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone pole, spilling out such an enormous belch of black smoke that scared villagers thought the town was afire...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...
...listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple decline to show themselves, the crowd may cover their chimney and smoke them...