Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jackson got a ladder and climbed up to the Duke's window, calling "Where is Your Grace?" There was no answer, much smoke and belching flame. Hours later a policeman found burned to a crisp in "The Heronry's" pantry all that was left of Prince Louis. Said Mr. McCormick to newsmen: "I think the Duke, blinded by smoke, missed his way to the stairs, blundered into a corner room and was overcome. When the floor was burned through the body must have fallen into the pantry below...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...thirties has abandoned the amphitheater and the auditorium and has retrenched itself among the committee rooms, the round tables, the conference benches. The man worth while is he who has the gift of driving home a point informally against a barrage of conflicting opinions stabbing through a cigar smoke screen laid down by friend and foe alike. The great issues are not decided before the admiring plaudits of an appreciative audience, but are hashed out behind locked doors, with only press reports reaching the general public...
...that point the Maintenance Department stopped in, deciding at once that the Chimney was not tall enough. But the architects would hear of no additions to their classic structure. The maintenance department had an old fan which they then placed at the top of the flue to draw the smoke, if not from the fireplace, from the wood itself. But again the smoke moped in a corner of the Common Room...
...University engineer, the Adams House engineer, the janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range...