Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for beer, which few Germans consider alcoholic, Adolf Hitler touches no alcoholic tipple. Neither does he smoke. Hot water he calls "effeminate." Last week, on the biggest morning of his life, this pudgy, stoop-shouldered, tooth-brush-mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his historic encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reickspräsident...
Intermission came with its clutter and shuffle of scenery. While he waited for the callboy's knock, Scotti tried to smoke one of his long, monogrammed cigarets, but his mouth was too parched. He had never been so nervous, he decided, not even on that first night in Malta 43 years ago when it had seemed fantastic that he, son of a Neapolitan grocer, intended for the priesthood, should be singing in opera. Finally the knock came...
...until March 4 to pass this bill. Well, this bill won't go through before March 4. You can put that in your pipe and smoke...
...think," said he at Pasadena last week, "all the matter in the Universe was once condensed into a single primordial atom and that this atom exploded with such force that we still see some of the smoke going away. And ever since that original disintegration, matter has been breaking up into lighter and simpler substances. We are still in time to see this wonderworld, for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...
...narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down in smoke...