Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquaintance of at least a third of the nation's citizenry with nature is largely limited to the spectacle of a strip of park lawn and a few trees which have valiantly withstood the ravages of factory smoke. City shut-ins are likely to forget that all one needs to penetrate a wilderness of 13,000 sq. mi. is a car. a fortnight and a few dollars. The National Park Service does the rest. These are popular Western spots...
...attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only an occasional train, are careful not to kill the rail...
...fellow voyageurs during Sally's five and my twelve years' cruise experience. She vouchsafed us several personal and unusually laudable confidences that have caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea of a justly proud father, "Why can't she be loved for herself...
...these "frescoes" is a personification of the U. S. landscape as a naked girl: She lies on her left side her flank golden: Her hair is burned black with the strong sun: The scent of her hair is of dust and of smoke on her shoulders: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country...
...doctor was summoned, said that the paralysis was caused by a light stroke of apoplexy, that gradual recovery was probable. Joe Humphries balked when the doctor suggested a hospital, went instead to a nearby boardinghouse. The second day he had regained enough muscular control to smoke a cigaret...