Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps Martin's broad overplay finds partial justification in the job done by his fellow actors. He had to be ridiculous or they would have overshadowed him by their bizarre performances. Elaine Eldridge played the snuff-taking Ada Lester as though she were Helen Hayes doing Victoria. Mixing sweeping gestures, a tremulous voice (representing both infirmity and rage) and stiff posturings, she had a fine time being the Grande Dame of Back County, Georgia...
...pumped through it. With it, he hooked off the tree of the other. The gas then shot out of the wells so fast that the flames were pushed 90 ft. above the platform, giving it a chance to cool. This week, Kinley plans to drop explosives into the wells, snuff out the fires with the blast...
...indispensable man" of the oil industry, owes his highly profitable trade to an accidental discovery. His father made his living "shooting" oil wells (i.e., dynamiting them to loosen the oil-bearing formations). One day in 1913, when a well caught fire he discovered that a dynamite blast could snuff it out. Myron and his younger brother Floyd concentrated on oil-well fire fighting. In 1931, when Myron went to Rumania to put out a fire which had raged for two years, his fame became international...
...tried to. Tuxedo Park was the home of the tuxedo, frosty formality, and an Autumn Ball that still kicks off New York's debutante season. Like most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters, it is now, by comparison, a social ghost town...
...opening day at Lincoln Downs, but this time they were waiting for the Democratic nominee for president. They smoked their cigars just the same and they talked ward politics as usual, and only when the sound of the train became too loud did they straighten their coat collars and snuff out their cigars...