Word: cheroots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...