Word: smokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...explained to correspondents en passant that he now fervently regrets having once churlishly refused a cigar offered him by the late King Edward VII. "It was very impolite and silly of me," he added contritely, "although I have the excuse that I did not then and do not now smoke, or approve of smoking...
...October afternoons there is a dim smoke-blue haze lying mystically over the regions up the Charles. The Boston College tower rises almost old-world through the enchantment of diffused sunlight and even the Brighton abattoir deludes one into a vague resentment against its vociferous detractors. The passing of slim, long, smoothly-swinging eights, joyful with the leisurely power of an early season paddle but intensifies the easy rhythm of the scene, while an artistic contrast is afforded by the soft pad-padding of the occasional cross-country candidate. Through the trees the glimpses of the fields persuade one that...
Lighted Cigarets. A coin dropped in the slot of a new machine makes a cigaret fall with its end against an incandescent electric coil. The heat lights the cigaret, which forthwith drops out of the machine for the buyer to smoke on his matchless way. One William Cohen of Brooklyn invented the device...
...Smoke Clouds. Near Stuttgart, Germany, guns spit up bombs; the bombs burst in air and from them spread wide layers of smoke clouds. Flyers in planes could not see terrain or buildings below the smoke. The device seemed a good protection to the Germans against an inimical air attack...
...Muskogee, Okla., John Coffey, a farmer, wished to smoke a pipe and lighted a match. The match broke and fell into a tank of kerosene. The kerosene began to burn and a cat walked past it. The cat's fur caught fire and Farmer Coffey chased the cat. The cat jumped into his haybarn and the haybarn burned down...