Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...
...smoke, it seems, has not taken notice of the chimney built especially for its guidance three years ago. The chimney is only a part of the fireplace which is one of the finest, a rare antique, we are told. Three years ago, when the Adams House was launched at a big inaugural affair, at which no undergraduates were present the guests were smoked out by the lusty young chimney. The janitor immediately tackled the problem by raising the logs up nearer the flue, but the smoke would take no encouragement, preferring to hang like a cloud over the Common Room...
...protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces of iron pipe, tear gas was as useless as cigar smoke. The sheriff was carried off unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept. 11 & 25). He clawed...
...Dean was walking along Massachusetts Avenue several days ago, when he was stopped in his tracks by the sight of an automobile in flames, in front of Leavitt and Peirce's, with a panicky woman-driver attendant. After watching the merry flames a while the Dean rushed into the Smoke Shop, and dashed out "in all directions," as Leacock puts it, with a fire extinguisher. After the Dean had doused all the innocent bystanders with his chemical contraption, some fine fellow came along and saved the burning car. Professor Hanford then cooly retreated, not a little stained with fire-fighting...
...soon as the Duke of York was old enough to smoke a pipe, his brother Edward of Wales took him to Alfred Dunhill's shop on Duke Street, a smart little London thoroughfare running out of Piccadilly. As soon as the Duke of Gloucester could smoke, he was taken by his two royal brothers to Dunhill's to pick out his first pipe. And when young Prince George first went to Dunhill's, he was accompanied by his three royal brothers. That would have been a great day for Alfred Dunhill if he had had any further...