Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days on the Pacific Coast, returned to Japan to become secretary to the great empire-builder, Field Marshal Prince Yamagata. Matsuoka's appointment as President of S. M. R. means that Japan's most determined militarists again dominate the Government. Smart, they put up a great smoke screen of announcements last month that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was appointing "milder men" to key posts...
Thomas Ripley's new account of Hardin's gory career is a turbulent, romantic book in which guns roar on almost every page, remorseless pistolmen pink each other with grave aplomb, and hair-trigger gunplay is described in purple passages that smoke and crackle. Although he debunks some Western myths, Author Ripley is more interested in relating good, tall, cow-country tales...
...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...
...hands of the Senate clock overlapped, Vice President Garner laid down his cigar, blew out a puff of smoke, brought his gavel down smartly...
McIntyre: . . . Floating for an instant in the public eye like a smoke ring and sifting apart...