Word: cameleer
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There is practically no drinking among women but they smoke profusely. Although surprisingly good Russian cigarettes can be purchased with foreign money, the Russians themselves cannot get good tobacco with their rubles and are delighted to obtain American cigarettes. Their unusual fondness for Camels makes it seem at first that here is a people whose choice among the brands of American cigarettes is based on something more substantial than advertising slogans and endorsements from Hollywood. French discovered, however, that it is really the picture of the camel, not any inherent superiority, which fascinates them...
Sued for Divorce. Pauline Lord, actress (Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) ; by Owen Burtch Winters, Manhattan advertising man, originator of Camel Cigaret's Cellophane advertising campaign; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...
...detachment of the Italian camel corps in Cyrenaica lurched swiftly over stony roads near the Libyan coast last week in pursuit of a band of Arab rebels. Late at night they made contact near the little village of Slonta. There was a running fight. Rifles flashed yellow in the dark. Twelve tribesmen were killed. A short charge captured most of the rest, including their leader, a hardbitten, wiry old veteran of 75, wearing the silken turban cords of a sheik...
...Increased taxation. Britain is already the heaviest taxed nation in the world. The British camel can stand few more straws...
...dailies tried to approach the A. N. P. A.'s end-elimination of free advertising-by less violent means. By agreement of the Publishers' Association of New York City all newspapers continued to print fairly complete radio programs but struck out all names of sponsors. Thus the Camel Quarter Hour became simply "Morton Downey, tenor; orchestra; talk, Anthony Wons" ; Lucky Strike was not mentioned in the listing of "B. A. Rolfe Orchestra...