Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many another military bigwig, stepped out of motors and trains at the head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven-bound whine of a 16-inch shell from one of the country's 32 biggest coast guns...
...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie-2 and 1 Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This was no way to win a test of physical skill and mental poise, they reasoned. They saw Mrs. Horn complete her first round with the shocking score of 88. But Mrs. Orcutt had completed the round with an evermore shocking...
...annual horde of Freshmen having duly arrived, being now, it is hoped, somewhat acclimated to Cambridge smoke and Harvard airs, the college year is well under way. The only remaining formality necessary to a successful opening is the return of the upper-classmen...
Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...