Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manuscripts, books and papers; the children's toys; his wife's sewing, chipped teacups; dirty spoons, knives and forks; lamps, an inkwell, glasses, clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business. One of the chairs has only three legs; and the children are playing at cooking on another one which happens...
...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...deflation, for flatiron." There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where a bunch of unfunny, characterless politicians smoke cigars and harass the Senator. William Powell plays the title role, a sketchy part that is never developed into a sympathetic character, and one always feels the presence of the clever scriptwriter just behind Powell in the smoky hotel room...
...prisoner, booked as Jacob "Jack" Lewis, was captured last Friday in a raid on a South End hotel. Held for questioning over the weekend, he was arraigned yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to charges of participation in January's smoke-bomb holdup...
...that's the way the ball bounces. Shortly after I had entered the smoke-filled nancium, some reference was made to the New Student, but I was engrossed in removing my rubbers and didn't learn anything enlightening on the hateful little subject...