Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north, in the Ruhr, driving along the Rhine at twilight, one sees the sky greyed with smoke from hundreds of factory chimneys. But just as one begins to marvel at the normal pace of the Ruhr's industrial life, one passes a great broken Rhine bridge whose gashed ends point aimlessly into...
...loose remarks that fairly smoke...
...Harper's Bazaar, and editor-in-chief of a string of Butterick Publishing Co. magazines-and he never quite got over it. Now, says Sell, "every time I go through a magazine I'm like an old fire horse. When I hear the bell, and see the smoke and flame, it always gets me up." Last week the 59-year-old fire horse went back into harness as editor of slick, sophisticated Town & Country...
...Alabama Power Co., cooperating with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the $500,000 test, was donating 500,000 tons of coal, willing to see it all go up in smoke and flame. The initial rate of burn-up was only 50 tons a day. The test would probably go on for a year...
...most entertaining item in Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...