Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street, for Marseille was playing host to the Radical Socialist Party Congress (see col. 3). It was in session when fire inexplicably burst forth in the women's dressmaking department on the second floor of Les Nouvelles Galeries. Into swift action went the bearded personnel manager. With smoke and flames spurting from Les Nouvelles Galeries and the whole second floor blazing, rotund Louis Frichet rushed panting up the stair case to the roof, carrying an armful of blankets...
...crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...
...carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter on Chameen Island was saved from catching fire only by a sudden shift in the wind...
Thick clouds of smoke have arisen all summer and fall from WTActivities in such important political vineyards as Kentucky, Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. So far the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, headed by Texas' mild-spoken old Senator Morris Sheppard, has found no fire beneath the fumes though it has kept WPA's nimble Harry Hopkins on the jump answering questions...
...testing of the Lafayette Square Fire Department's new hook and ladder, complete with 100-feet water tower. The boys from Lafayette gleefully sprayed the home of the boys from Koscluske with two towering torrents of water. "This is the only time we ever have fun," exulted one smoke-eater...