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Word: cigar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current attraction at the Metropolitan, "The River Pirate" is--a good picture. But it is not so good a picture as it ought to be; it is a bit like an unlighted cigar--all best Havana, but lacks the spark...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...your issue of Oct. 22 appears an article entitled "Faunce Out." This contains a farrago of insinuations and trivialities, many of them untrue. For example, Dr. Faunce appreciates a good cigar and keeps a box of one of the best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Schulte Cigar Stores, Alfred Dunhill, Schulte Real Estate Co., Huyler's, Wm. Demuth, American Drug Syndicate, Schulte United Five Cents to One Dollar Stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chain Stores | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Olympia is a dinner-table anecdote about pre-War Austrian intrigue. Though flecked with Molnar's second-best jokes and informed with the proper politesse, Olympia would have been very dull without Actress Crews who smoked a cigar and sometimes made it sparkle while her daughter was being seduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Married. David A. Schulte, cigar store tycoon of Manhattan; and Mrs. Henry Koehler, relict of the treasurer of Park & Tilford (candies); in Manhattan. Mr. Schulte owns Park & Tilford, controls Dunhill tobacco, Vivaudou perfumes, Huylers candies, other commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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