Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With three weeks of seagoing fun aboard the Houston behind him, the President went to Charleston's grimy old railroad station, boarded his Atlantic Coast Line special for Washington. Shus-sh! hissed the engine. Then shushushushushushs and the train rolled out of the shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train...
...Started apparently by fallen power-lines, blazes flickered up in the night on three broad fronts, spread out through the dry, brush-matted hills of Altadena, Capistrano, Malibu. Soon the tawny, tumbled country on all sides of Los Angeles was a mass of crackling flame. Beneath huge billows of smoke, it sprinted across the arid hills, licking up bungalows threatening oil depots, stealing down lush valleys to frizzle acres of fruit...
...Mussolini, like Victoria, is also a prude. He abolishes brothels, puts Italian showgirls into modest garments, extinguishes Rome's once brilliant night life, does not drink, smoke or eat meat...
...great squares by 30,000 Fascist boys of sub-military age. Trained since early childhood to handle Army rifles, they blazed away with blanks last week, also fired full size artillery pieces from which sheets of flame leaped six feet into the air until the mimic battle reeked of smoke. "Make of your souls well-sharpened daggers!" The Dictator told his boys...
...Flexner created 33 years ago and now relinquished to become director emeritus. Dr. Gasser was fascinated by the scientific prima donnas of the Institute from whom he was expected to produce harmony. And Dr. Gasser was flabbergasted by the newspapermen and one hardbitten, red-headed woman who breathed cigaret smoke at him. Mr. Rockefeller, who showed no discomfort from the smoke, had to help Dr. Gasser out with the interview...