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...others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
...into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...
Outside in the sunshine pedestrians gazed perplexedly at the clanging fire engines and screaming police motorcycles converging on Crown City Plating Co. They could see no fire, smell no smoke. They wondered mildly why red-faced policemen were roping off the street for two blocks each...
...severe Rue de la Paix autumn had already come. And on hand for its coming was an excited little army of U. S. dress buyers who crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses...
...territory as a land for tourists. In 1929 nearly 22,000 people sailed four days and a half across 2,000 miles of Pacific Ocean to see Hawaii's famed hedges of night-blooming cereus, to lie lazily on its beaches, explore its volcanoes, taste its papaias and mangos, smell its fragrant pikake blossoms, listen to its ukuleles. For these and like blessings they left $11,000,000 behind, a sort of thank-offering which the Hawaiians gratefully received...