Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five years ago the fighting ceased and men looked forward to a better world that has not come. Instead we see confusion and distress, ill-will and suffering; peoples still blinded and staggered by the smoke, and scorched by the embers, of the vast conflagration that swept across the earth. This might have been foreseen, for moral effort, when at an end, gives way to moral lassitude; and to hold the spirit on a lofty plane amid the sordid cares of peace is harder than in the actress of war. To do so we must keep our thoughts in tune...
...brute love of each man for himself, each caste for itself, each nation for itself, is stronger and blinder since hate has covered the earth with fire, smoke and human bones. The love of self, after the universal and common defeat, has magnified this hate a hundred times, hatred of the small against the great, the discontented against the restless, the servants against their masters, the ambitious classes against the declining classes, the hegemonic races against the vassal races, the ruling peoples against the peoples under their yoke. The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities...
...possible the 2,000,000-volt flashes at the Pittsfield plant last June (TIME, June 18). Steinmetz had often predicted the course of future technical development. Last August he wrote that a four-hour day would accomplish all essential work in 2023 A.D. The steam locomotive will be obsolete, smoke eliminated. All heat, power, light furnished by hydroelectricity...
...smoked incessantly specially made cigars, which produced a maximum of smoke and a minimum of nicotine. He was the only person allowed to smoke in the plant, and refused to work there unless he were permitted...
...beautiful. She has dark hair, dark eyes dark skin, bright lips. She talks quickly and brilliantly. Her conversation is lit with epigrams and she has moments of caustic comment on life in general and people in particular. One of the most ardent feminists for years, she nevertheless does not smoke. To her lecture tour which starts this week she looks forward with much trepidation. But she is a good actress (she once acted in London and as a young girl was dropped from a cast because she was caught reading Creative Evolution at a rehearsal...