Quotes About Acetylene

The car was sporting and rather dangerous, and the lights were powerful affairs fed by acetylene gas. Sam sped on, with a feeling of power, of dominating the universe, at twelve dizzy miles an hour.

There are a lot of things about the theater that bore me stiff: trying on costumes, being photographed, going to hairdressers, dieting that I may not overlap the costumes, the wretched dressing rooms, the overheated theaters, the grim mutes who make up benefit audiences who, for all their concern with charity, can't be thawed out with an acetylene torch.

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks,A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.