Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasoline station in Trenton, N. J., one Edward Frommel, a man with a hickory leg, sat smoking. It was late at night. In a cigar box over Mr. Frommel's head lay a wad of dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with...
...professional hockey play-ers-graphic, clear and undistinguished drawings, very creditable for a tennis player. And in Boston a crowd stimulated a hockey game between the Bruins and the St. Patrick's team by throwing onto the ice 76 American pennies, one Canadian penny, one broken bottle, 65 cigar and cigaret butts, countless programs, and the yolks, the whites and the shells of four eggs...
...hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes he glanced at a figure lolling obscurely in the back of the room. It was Will Rogers, Mayor of Beverly Hills, who refused to sit in a more conspicuous place because "he had been able to keep out of this thing so far." When Risberg got through, the accused players spent...
...heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right there in Chicago. Ask anyone. Then the Windsor out in Denver had sent for him and he was doing pretty good out there, selling cigar boxes full of shiny mineral specimens on the side. Denver was a red hot town for someone with some money to make a lot more in. A growing town, a wideopen town, an ignorant town. Now if only?...
...reading this statement, sniffed, spat, quoted a statement, issued to the press under similar circumstances by Mr. Tunney's predecessor, John L. Sullivan. "I'll fight any - of a - with two fists, any place, any time, for a good cigar. . . . All the training I need is a haircut and a shave...