Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curl of Smoke. Moroccans did, after their fashion. On Bastille Day, Moroccan flags flew alongside the French Tricolor, the streets were thronged with French and Moroccan strollers, and the cafe terraces were packed...
...when a three-wheeled delivery motorcart pulled up be fore the Café Gonin, crowded with Europeans sipping apéritifs while they waited for the street dancing to begin. Two Moroccan teen-age youths climbed off the motorcycle and walked away. Minutes later, somebody noticed a curl of smoke coming from the motorcycle. Two European youths lifted up the canvas cover and peered in. There was a deafening explosion. Café Gonin's terrace became a mass of writhing, bloody bodies. Six Europeans were dead, 35 wounded...
Located at ... City Hall is Milles' memorial statue in the form of an Indian God of Peace, dedicated to the war veterans of Ramsey County. As a group of Indians crouch about their council fire, smoking their pipe of peace, the smoke rising heavenward takes the form of an Indian God of Peace, one hand holding a peace pipe, the other extended in a gesture of friendliness...
...reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western world is still alight, but it fizzles up in willful smoke...
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