Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the rush hour one morning last week in Manhattan, President Frank Hedley of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. boarded one of his own subway express trains at 14th Street like any other nickel-paying subway rider. As the train hurtled downtown, Mr. Hedley smelled smoke. About the train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station...
...people are placid, brisk, nearly all white-collar workers. The proportion of Rotarians, Kiwanians and life insurance salesmen is said to be higher than anywhere else in the world. It is full of retired invalids who bought Cities Service around 55 (now around 4). There are few factories, little smoke. The clear, dry, rarefied air is equable during the day, cool at night. Denverites claim it ventilates their brains. It has made Denver a centre for the sanitarium industry. The sun shines on an average of 304 days a year. The cost of living is below the U. S. city...
...whose literary experiments the U. S. public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know...
...Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands of cigarets and to use certain soaps to return that schoolgirl complexion...
...length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...