Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...
...Manhattan directors' meetings, his directors (among them such men as Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and Charles Steele of J. P. Morgan) did not enter the board room until he led the way, always greeted him with "How do you do, Mr. President?", did not smoke at meetings. (He smoked cigars only on proper occasions, sometimes a pipe while riding in his Packard.) In Chicago, his headquarters, he lived modestly in a 20-year-old apartment building. No. 199 Lake Shore Drive (where the Insulls lived years ago), walked down every morning to his office on Jackson...
...command to a rowdy crew of lowans who were shoving their way into his small court room at Le Mars (pop.: 4,788) one afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to suspend farm mortgage foreclosures. One of the intruders arrogantly demanded to be heard. Judge Bradley silenced him. The crowd growled...
...outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news. The outlying islands of the Bermuda group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred his equipment to a British boat for demonstration behind smoke screens. The Macneil fog-eye, like the Macneil thermoelectric sextant perfected last year (TIME, July 25), functions according to Commander Macneil's thesis that every object not at Absolute Zero (-459.4° F.) radiates heat-like infra-red rays. A two-foot, concave, silvered glass mirror in the fog-eye collects infra...
...hours the Macon flew in the vicinity of her dock at Akron, then headed northwest to circle Cleveland. Clevelanders saw her shining fat stern disappear over Lake Erie. At sunset she was back at Akron where a smoke bomb and two green flares signaled her descent in the twilight...