Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OSLO, Norway--An unidentified warship, seen limping southward under cover of a heavy smoke screen, was believed to have been crippled in a naval battle that shook the western coast of Norway for 10 hours today with the rumble of heavy shelling...
...avocation. Speaking of his "lifelong struggle against the evils of the saloon," he says: "This began while a freshman in college." His autobiography dwells most fondly on his behind-the-scenes activities. He relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually...
...witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite was recognized...
After the verbal smoke had cleared away, at least two things were apparent to impartial eyes: Lou Ambers is not a great fighter, Henry Armstrong is losing his steam. Although last week's defeat was his first in 47 fights, the little black dynamo who knocked out 35 of 37 opponents within 18 months has chalked up only three knockouts in his last nine matches...
...Imperial Airways' Pilot A. B. H. Youell took his nine passengers over the French border during a routine Zurich-London flight last week he heard a clap of thunder. Looking overboard he saw a puff of black smoke. Then five more claps and five more puffs followed in quick succession. Pilot Youell knew antiaircraft fire when he saw it. He checked his position: near Strasbourg, France. Pouring on the coal to 10,000 feet, swerving from his course, he radioed Strasbourg airfield to find out if war had begun. "Very sorry," came the answer. "You were near the Maginot...