Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forest fires in the State of Victoria, southeastern Australia, fanned by high winds, last week became a Commonwealth calamity. Thousands of miles of timberland were burned black. The fires raged in some areas on 40-mile fronts. In Melbourne, sweating under a temperature of 114° (see p. 29), smoke came down so thick that visibility was limited to a block. It was dark by 3 p.m. in the country. Much of Melbourne's watershed was devastated, increasing the probability that water consumption, already restricted because of the drought, would have to be further cut down...
Telephone and telegraph communications were cut. County hospitals received hundreds of men and women blinded by smoke. Thousands of farm homes were completely destroyed. Whole townships were evacuated. Roads were blocked by falling, burning trees. Ships in Melbourne Bay and railroads operated under fog conditions. From the air it looked as if the entire State was smoldering. Victoria's dead were counted...
...morning of September 29, 1938, a Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...
Suddenly a terrible vision swept across the Vagabond's imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
Radcliffe girls smoke pipes during the exam period because it's cheaper, and because "we don't inhale," it was learned from usually reliable Shepard Street sources last night...