Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect that his wife had been in voluntary and culpable connection with a number of handsome Hungarian officers during the War. Other witnesses stood ready to corroborate. Her black eyes flashing, Mme. Radojevitch pulled from her reticule an automatic pistol, fired wildly in all directions. When the smoke cleared away her husband lay dying on the floor, his chief witness was gravely wounded, the presiding justice and clerk of the court were hiding under their desks...
...only mystery connected with the Moffat tunnel. Begun in 1923, completed in 1928, the tunnel cost the city of Denver and certain nearby counties $15,470,000 to build. A special ventilating plant (forced draft for eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt...
...week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...quarters of the Reether Stable had somehow exploded. Two minutes later a snake of fire ran down the corridor between the stalls of the horses, licking at wisps of straw. All the horses were awake now. They stood tense and beautiful in the darkness, sucking in the smell of smoke with deep, noisy snorts. Men were running about outside...
...inhaling coal dust may not be as great as the death rate from taking poison or being shot, but the discomfort and dirt caused by our very smoky city is visible on every hand. Ask those who come in contact every day with the nuisance caused by too much smoke. Ask the women folk, who know more about it and talk more about it than the males...