Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond's head was full of romantic confusion. The Garibaldi of '49 fighting a lost battle on the walls of Rome moved in the blue smoke which filled the room and penetrated the imagination. This man who was to lead a tortured Italy to unity and freedom seemed to have ridden out of the pages of Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps...
...stillness of the night a few smouldering embers lie red against the black of night. A faint smell of smoke drifts by on the summer wind. A little dog sniffs about in the ashes to salvage a hastily remembered bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied...
...Philadelphia, William Dion was walking along a street smoking. Ever since a throat operation 22 years ago he has had to exhale through a tube in his throat. A passerby saw smoke coming out of his collar, grabbed the spot to put out the fire. The tube was displaced, William Dion fell choking. A fast car got him to a hospital in time to save him from choking to death...
...fraternity house, costing $2.05; one with a friend in town, costing 85 cents; and three over Thanksgiving and one missed, costing nothing. These plain figures add up to $11.40, which I paid for 21 meals, four of them costing me nothing. $1.60 of this sum went up in smoke. It was just put on extra, because I had signed up to pay a minimum of $8.50 a week. Really, the thirteen meals which I ate are listed at a price of $6.90, and the added cost seems to be a real injustice...
...Coffee Pot" is the name of an "atmosphere" which will be created at Kirkland House this week, which will be called forth every evening from a cloud of smoke, and which will be featured by ten and one-half minute talks from members of the House. "The Coffee Pot," according to announcement of the House Committee, will be so informal and illusory as to escape entirely the appellation of "organization" but will meet in the Committee Room at 7 o'clock or as soon as three men appear...