Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining rooms of the Club escaped with little damage as heavy fire walls, and double floors stood in the way of the flames. Slight damage was due to the clouds of smoke and steam that poured out of the upper windows, and discolored the walls. Two members temporarily trapped on the second floor, gesticulated appealingly to the crowd below with cries of "Help!" but it was correctly surmised by the spectators that the victims were beyond all possible assistance. Fortunately no casualties occurred. That the conflagration was conceived in some form of sin or sorrow, was the report of several...
...Trust Co. Then there was a truly robust rumor that linked Guaranty Trust Co., National Bank of Commerce, Bankers' Trust and First National in a Morgan-group merger that would be the super bank of all the world. The rumors were all denied and seemed to consist of smoke rather than fire...
With the proper understanding of the inherently smoke-screen quality of the first named reason for the steady growth of "unsatisfactories" in Dean Hanford's report, the necessity for close attention to the second and third reasons comes squarely into its own. No doubt more stringency in the treatment of men who have once failed of promotion would result in an immediate improvement in the appearance of Freshman standing, but by so doing the symptoms of disease are removed. It is the cause of the symptoms that requires earnest searching and thoughtful treatment...
Invisible intelligencers spread the news in the great ant hill. Squads of ant firemen advanced into the tunnel, attacked the flames, carried out smoke-blackened passengers. Many were injured, none killed. Scores of ant officials with ant authority hurried to investigate...
...Favorite smoke: Lucky Strike, 45; Camels, 25; Chesterfield...