Word: soot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
Destiny is a strange thing. For some men it flows evenly, broadening like a river. For others it expands like a gas. If the expansion is hurried there may be an explosion and a man's career will settle to earth in floccules of soot...
Manhattan's Bowery is a slum of light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from...
...inspector appeared several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...
Priestley did not know what he had made when he heated red oxide of mercury with a burning glass and collected the atmosphere caused by the process. He labored under an old notion that combustible substances had a constituent, "phlogiston," which departed from them when they burned (as soot, for example). Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment...