Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second carriage passed me I noticed a queer sort of grey object hurtling through the air. Then there was an explosion and a puff of smoke...
...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
...definite statement emerged last week from the smoke surrounding the possibilities of opera in Manhattan's Radio City. Latest talk has been that the Metropolitan has abandoned all idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Rockefeller venture, that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would be invited in on the strength of the enterprise shown in its presentations of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Richard Strauss's Elektra...
...capers. . . . Several of my friends placed 'sell short' orders with their brokers ten days before the great market crash. And, while uninformed investors were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote, are concealing their extravagances, keeping much of their wealth abroad, "and at the first sign of any nation-wide disturbance they would be off to foreign lands in their yachts...
...eventually Fraley became commander of the ship Spenlove engineered. Fraley, of the incoherent bulldog breed, needed a lot of help when it came to women. Fidus Achates Spenlove supplied it. But in spite of him, Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried to get Fraley back Francine knifed her. Because his British susceptibilities were offended...