Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely surrounded by Japanese soldiers, was rushed from his palace between lines of Japanese guards to the railway station. The station was full of Japanese, with scarcely a native Manchukuan to be seen. Far down the track a whistle shrieked. The Japanese crowd went wild. Puffing great clouds of smoke, a train of the Japanese South Manchuria Railway drew in, bearing Japan's popular, mountain-climbing Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Son of Heaven...
...where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...
...office success of As Thousands Cheer beats that of Of Thee I Sing, the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning show for which George Gershwin wrote the music. It is running far ahead of Jerome Kern's Roberta, although no single show tune is selling so well as "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," Roberta's lifesaver...
...importance can arrive in Sofia, small Bulgarian capital, without everyone from the cab drivers at the station to the perfume dealers in their offices knowing it within half an hour. Before the smoke of the Belgrade express had cleared from the station rafters last week everyone knew that Boske Jeftitch was in town...
...reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...