Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton and its clique of South Chinese generals can be sold, Hongkong Hu is the man to make the sale, discreetly. Last week he received General Doihara behind his iron gratings, then puffed an impressive smoke screen of anti-Japanese fulminations...
...smoke in here," growled the bailiff...
...short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from his starting point. His flight had lasted 75 seconds. Next time he will use bigger wings, fasten a tank of smoke-producing chemicals to one leg so spectators can follow his course...
Into this roiled situation stepped a kindly bystander, the American Museum of Natural History, to help & advise, mediate & make peace. So tactful was the peacemaker that when the smoke had cleared it was observed that the dismembered monster-the neck from Washington, the tail from Pittsburgh, the head and body from Utah-had all traveled to Manhattan and into the maw of the American Museum...
...months had taught him much. Soon he would doff the disguise and go back to Russia. Possible candidates for whippings and roastings drifted through his mind. As for his people, he would change their mode of dress, force them to shave their beards, compel them to smoke. A navy second to none and Russia modernized. . . . All in good time...