Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than 30 years and Donora has often...
Into Power. Peru's new strong man is short, pudgy, but light on his feet. He has a sharp nose, bright little eyes, receding hair. He plays chess, loves bullfights and opera, enjoys an occasional pisco but does not smoke. With his wife and two sons he lives in a modest house on the unfashionable side of Avenida Arequipa...
Nursing the critical wounds induced by his talky Summer and Smoke ("I thought some of the criticisms were unnecessarily severe, but they were certainly honestly written"), Playwright Tennessee Williams admitted that he himself had suffered early doubts about his latest: "I had read it aloud to a friend whose opinion I respected and he had gone to sleep...
...were the paintings-almost too successful. Dufy never lets nature trouble him; he uses it, like a seasoned chef making a salad. The fresh green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
...Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...