Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's City Press Association, Howey was walking to City Hall to cover a routine meeting one winter day in 1903, when he saw smoke seeping from the Iroquois Theatre. Up through a sidewalk grating crawled a blackened figure in stage costume, then another & another. They gasped a few words about the carnage inside. Cub Howey dashed into a saloon next door, telephoned his editor (who was certain Howey was drunk), paid the bartender $5 to tie up the telephone, one of the few in the neighborhood. When the day was over, boxcar headlines were screaming "736 DEAD...
...attached to the spark plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
...weeks later the Albers (FlapJack) Milling Co. plant made a roaring fire with a $300,000 loss. Seattle's ball park spiraled in smoke. Executives and their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...knew," he said,."my sister Ellen was asleep in the rear, I screamed but the more I screamed I got choked with smoke so I stopped screaming. The flames came into my room. I just had my pajamas on. I could not get to my sisters and then I opened the front window and heard the fire engines coming...
...political tutor was his uncle, Henry De La Warr Flood, who in Woodrow Wilson's time was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp...