Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
Idiosyncrasies. From an island in New York Harbor where the city's refuse is burnt, a smoky stench pervades the neighborhood. It bothers some people of the city. They sicken peculiarly because, health officials have just declared, the proteins in the smoke are poisonous to them. Other communities whose refuse is burned, unwittingly suffer in a like manner. Some of their people are bound to have an idiosyncrasy for the smoke, just as other people are sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible...
...happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position and corrected position signals, grew seasick. All wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue purposes. In the meantime Courtney pondered the almost indefatigable jinx...
...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
...name of Cleveland's Boy Scouts, caused a flurry of japes, jibes and ridicule in the nation's press. All Boy Scouts suffered when journalistic smartcrackers suggested ways and means for Cleveland's Boy Scouts to accost women on the street, ask them if they smoke, beg them to refrain...