Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful magazine of regional appeal in the Northwest. It was started in 1927 chiefly as a hobby, and partly because Brother Roscoe Fawcett was onetime...
...route to Baltimore's Logan Field the traveler can look down upon the Patapsco fc (Water-Of-Many-White-Caps) River at the spot where, on a British warship in 1814, Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
Delaware River where within ten minutes the plane darts from Delaware to New Jersey to Pennsylvania and back to New Jersey. The last leg of the northbound flight raises the grey spires of Princeton before the plane drops down on the smoke-plumed Jersey meadows at Newark Airport...