Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a block from the Hudson River pier where the Normandie burned and sank five years ago, fire broke out one day last week on the John Ericsson, formerly the Swedish liner Kungsholm. For three hours, fire engines and boats fought the flames while clouds of yellowish smoke billowed over the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, tied up at the same pier and engaged in loading 2,200 passengers for her scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With...
...Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
...feet. It is still adding slowly to its present height (1,380 ft). Geologists estimate that it has ejected by now 1,058,220,800 tons of material. The crater, for the moment, is in a quiet phase, with only a dull glow at night and a pillar of smoke...
...time the Greeks began telling their myths, Etna was deeply encrusted with legend. Somewhere under the sea, the lame god Vulcan (for whom volcanoes are named) had his workshop. It was said that the smoke and flame from his forge, where he devised various contraptions to annoy his estranged mother (Juno) and his wife (Venus), roared up through Etna's crater...