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...result that there is a cheer. Late arrivals come in, radiating cold and looking for seats, asking every one they see what the score is and how the team has been playing up to that point. And when it is all over the meeting breaks up in a cloud of smoke, and the general opinion is that it was "some game...
There is usually just one thing that keeps a man down:--lack of determination, and resolve to finish what he starts. No exercise, and the habit of thinking things over in a cloud of smoke will continue to keep down his resolve and determination, and the point at which most men quit is usually that at which one more kick would put them across onto the winning side...
...India the general unrest due to the War, that exists all over the world, the cost of living is very high, and strikes are frequent. Conditions are right for the people to nurse the ideas of race-hatred and revolt that the Extremists are spreading broadcast. If the cloud passes over, India will be well on her way to prosperous, peaceful, self-government: if the storm breaks it will shatter England's plans and put the idea of an India under her own government out of mind as impossible for many decades to come...
...door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like maple honey boiled on the sunside of a cloud with cocoanuts disolved...
...smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...