Word: caporale
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Low Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison ('08) discourses on Leavitt & Peirce cigarettes: "There were no cheap brands except Home Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale...
The fast-talking executive wound up his pep speech to a group of aspiring advertising copywriters by holding up a pack of "Sweet Caporal" cigarettes.
The Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache...
Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont...