Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horror-struck amid a ghastly red-&-yellow glare, more than 200 Frenchmen stood on seven fiercely burning decks in the English Channel last week. The biggest liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke. Asphyxiated a few minutes after he sent her first and only S. O. S., the Atlantique's chief radio operator lay slumped against his smoldering instrument table...
...short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...
...discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation...
...there much smoke in your office...
...length in what one noble journal described as "the most vitriolic indictment ever hurled at any student body" and no one paid any attention to us except the International and Associated Press Associations. We created a really gigantic disturbance over the unkempt and disarrayed student, and after all the smoke and flame cleared away, there stood the same student, looking, if anything, a little more the worse for wear than usual. Students have a disturbing way of accepting editorials as surly Monday morning expressions of Saturday night gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only...