Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven o'clock, the hour of sailing, was almost at hand. Smoke was pouring from the funnels, but it was evident that there was very little crew aboard. Suddenly down the gangplank dashed a dozen sailors, joining the strikers at the last minute...
...certain fire, a fireman is suffocated from smoke. His pulse was beating and he was breathing. Dr. Arrowsmith gave him a hypodermic of strychnine and held ammonia to his nose...
...rate, that is what should be found on ambulances today. In all probability this fireman did not need even that, since he does not seem to have been much knocked out. The use of ammonia might have been justified, particularly after the man was moved well away from the smoke, but even it is doubtful...
...across the floor, to the sensuous strains of oriental music, varied, from time to time, by the clanging discords of a jazz band, their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were positively indecent. And all of this in an atmosphere that was strongly tainted by cigaret smoke and the fumes of whisky, which was being sold in cold-blooded violation of the Constitution of the United States...
...abhorred negligible vices. He did not smoke, enforced a non-smoking rule among his employes. They could chew if they wanted to. He cultivated, however, a taste for wine and a proficiency of tact worthy of one of the scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled...