Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in Cambridge, incendiaries had fired five buildings. In the cemetery, another fire blazed, its smoke trailing thin and mournful from the crematorium's high smokestack. The limousines were parked there, one with its shades drawn to hide the prostration of Miss Luigia Vanzetti, Mrs. Sacco and her son Dante. Mary Donovan and Gardner Jackson of the defense committee had the hardihood to follow into the crematorium after Miss Donovan had read a last eulogy to the dead. They peered through a glassed peephole at the coffins flaming...
...Hollisheimer had always been climbers, and it was with ease that Appleby crawled hand over hand over gargoyle and Cicero, smokestack and Dante, to the face of the clock. He leaped up, caught one of the hands of the clock and hung there. His weight was just enough to stay the course of time...
...landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
This was the gasoline launch that succored "John Harvard" the other day when she lost her smokestack. Yesterday in a driving wind the modern motor broke down and Coach Haines and his driver were driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...