Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke, the way they like their Martinis, the jobs they had, the girls they missed, how their houses are furnished, how they take a bath. This may not really add up to a novel, but readers will have some fun "recognizing" themselves or their friends in some of the meticulous sketches...
...Force C46 had been airborne only a few minutes when smoke began to stream from one of the engines. Fire-extinguishing procedure did no good, and Captain Thomas E. Wilson decided to abandon the plane. "MAYDAY," the distress call, went out, "MAYDAY-MAYDAY-MAYDAY...
...fire, which evidently began about 8:40 p.m., burned out the insulation of a motor, causing a consequent short circuit. Cambridge fire officials estimated actual damage at about $100 and smoke damage at another...
...balance is just enough to buy him a slab in the morgue, but before they put him on it, he and Ida, as cop and suspect, have some amusing repartee-for-two (He, menacingly: "What did you do [with that man] for that money?" She, innocently: "I sang Smoke Gets in Your Eyes five times...
...Russia], the habits of slavery are too deeply implanted." says a Russian in Ivan Turgenev's novel Smoke. "We must have a master in everything . . . This master is mostly a living person, but sometimes a so-called movement gets the upper hand . . . Why and on the strength of what reasons we [Russians] become slaves is a mystery, but such, it seems, is our nature...