Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought would become of the political difficulties he was combatting, if all prices were suddenly reduced by one half. Although he said that this was merely an idle fancy, he finally bad to agree with me that if it could be done the political problems would disappear like smoke. On the purchasing power of the mass of the people the security and peace of the World undoubtedly depends, and the only way to make this purchasing power sufficiently great is through scientific and mass production...
Arthur Clement, of Arthur's Lunch and Smoke Shop in the basement of the Lampoon building, said last night that he would ask the holders of the mortgage to continue his lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
...well with a braided cap and ended rather pitifully in shabby carpet slippers." He then glimpsed "an efficient, snappy-looking officer" of Marshal Feng's army seated on a bench in a special compartment, and was called in when the officer needed a corkscrew. Thereafter they sat toping and smoking for some time, although "of course [Mr. Morley was] not unfamiliar with the tradition that the soldiers of the 'Christian General' neither smoke nor drink...
...once through the picture does one feel that the wind-machines, the smoke-bombs, and the Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
...plane, showed his mother how to sew canvas on his wings. His first flight wiped out six months' work all but the motor. He built again, flew at exhibitions, paid off the mortgage. He learned to loop the loop before most U. S. flyers. Soon fleecy streamers of smoke were seen high over cities, spelling out trademarks for advertisers. The Fort Wayne boy had invented "sky-writing." He fell in love, staged the first "air elopement," crashed near Hillsdale, Mich., and was married in a hospital...