Word: chesterfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pleaded a producer of TV commercials, asking Actor-Announcer Allen Swift to hurry to a recording session. All sorts of people had collected to praise Chesterfield cigarettes, but no one present had sufficient talent to deliver a certain vital line. Swift hurried the five blocks between his Manhattan office and the recording studio, cleared his throat and said...
Wearing a fashionable black Chesterfield overcoat, the tall, polished Dobrynin stepped off the midday express from New York with his attractive brunette wife Irina Nikolaevna at his side. Russian embassy staffers showered him with roses, thrust out carnations. Dobrynin lost no time in dispensing his own roses. Smiling graciously and speaking in slightly accented English, he quoted Thomas Jefferson on the "remarkable similarity" between Americans and Russians, extended "the friendly greetings of my people." Then he climbed into a black Zil limousine and sped off to the Soviet embassy...
...education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...
...which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business Winslow deluged his delighted workers with $14 million worth of Shetland ponies, dental plates, Chesterfield coats, furniture, and 6,500 new cars...
BESTSELLING CIGARETTE is Pall Mall, according to Printers' Ink survey. Pall Mall overtook Camel, which dropped to No. 2. Salem moved up from seventh in 1959 to sixth, Marlboro from tenth to ninth. The 1960 order: Pall Mall, Camel, Winston, Lucky Strike, Kent, Salem, Chesterfield, L & M, Marlboro, Viceroy...