Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening shadows grow longer The Vagabond heads earlier for the big chair by the fire where mid clouds of smoke his dreams glow like the ruddy embers on the hearth. Quiet dreams they are--peaceful reflections that are needed to absorb a day of helter skelter educational scurrying...
...Vagabond likes these moments of reverie. His purely personal opinion is that in this day of language requirements and divisional far too little time is left to muse away in free thoughts that ramble up where the smoke rings fade off into the dark...
...servitor of the tribes of my country. Since the People designate me King, I accept! Let us pray." After the fervent prayer cannon boomed a 21 gun salute. First and only country to recognize Conqueror Nadir last week was his northern neighbor, Russia. Hardly had the smoke from Kabul's ancient brass saluting cannon died away than Afghans were telling each other hot news. Servants searching the hastily deserted palace of "Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled...
...Captain Bingham's explanations were unnecessary. The air was filled with the roar of drills, and great gaps in the deck testified to the one-time existence of smoke stacks...
...archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine torches, walked the Prime Minister of Japan and his Ministers...