Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar and have a chat-Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey, Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, Norman E. Mack of Buffalo and the Bosses of Syracuse and Utica...
Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...This is in addition to trade discounts, such as all tobacco companies give. Thus President Whelan ingratiates himself with tobacco distributors who have been vexed with the price reductions so widely made by chain store organizations. And with the chain store managers and clerks also. The more tobacco United Cigar, Schulte and other chained employes sell, the more Union Tobacco shares they can earn. Union Tobacco is setting aside 300,000 shares for this smart sales project...
...traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned to earth when the questioning began, but the smile remained and the cigar rolled easily about between answers which were not without a certain eager humor. The questions paralleled those asked of Candidate Hoover, though they were put less...
When the group had seated itself in Baron von Huenefeld's suite, the backer of the flight, acting as spokesman for his comrades, puffing nervously at his cigar and adjusting his monocle, replied to the reporter's questions...