Word: chesterfields
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...swiped [these] books, and has read them, is on the road to . . .a liberal education." Some of the books Union men had borrowed for keeps: Andersen's and Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jane Eyre, The Decameron, Wuthering Heights, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Chesterfield's Letters, Art in the Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud...
Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...
Columnist Randolph Churchill, however, still had his. In Chesterfield County, Va., Winston's rambunctious son (who lost a wheel doing 50 in Indiana last November) was fined $50 and costs for doing 75-to-80. With the fine he had paid for doing 80 in Connecticut, that made $105 that Visitor Randolph had contributed to U.S. communities...
...thousand men of Harvard will receive a musical salute from the Chesterfield Supper Club at 7 o'clock tonight over the NBC network...
...from every other brand. But for 20 years no major brand has differed from the others in wholesale price. Last week, as cigaret manufacturers raised their wholesale prices ½? a pack, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. stepped slightly out of line. Lucky Strike, Philip Morris, Old Gold, and Chesterfield went up to $6.50-a-thousand (after trade discounts). Reynolds put Camels up just short of this -$6.48 a thousand...