Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...
Disgusted at these futile attempts, the commandant of the nearest garrison ordered a squad of soldiers to the Ihlamour wellhead. An officer barked commands. The soldiers fired ten rounds rapidly down the well. When the smoke cleared away Yusuf's duck was heard quacking irritably from the abyss. Superstitious Mussulmans fled from the neighborhood, claimed that the duck was bewitched. City authorities posted the well as unfit for drinking purposes. While Ihlamour city fathers concentrated on the problem of duck extraction, Ihlamour householders were forced to go nearly two miles to the nearest unpolluted well...
Photographers last week prepared to take huge, detailed pictures of Michelangelo's magnificent paintings in Rome's Sistine Chapel. Reason: the Michelangelos must be treated for chemical decay in the paint, damp air and dust effects, carbon deposits from the smoke of holy candles. The photographs will be used to check the restorative process...
...horses broke loose in the stable yard and ran, loudly neighing, blinded by fire and smoke, back into the barn, which now shivered and rocked as it burned...
...crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...