Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years prior to the survey, seven ceilings had collapsed--four in the previous year, tenants said, adding that holes spanned up to two feet wide. Herbert Nipson, a tenant, knew when the occupant below him was smoking a cigar, because he could smell...
...lunchtime, and the natty old gent in the gray suit sits down, lights up a cigar and says, in that famous foghorn voice, "I must tell you a good lie-a real good lie." It is the story of a comedian who dies backstage at the end of his act while the audience continues to applaud, thinking he is still in the giant clown's shoes they see protruding from beneath the curtain. It is a good lie, one of the best, but is there any truth to it? "All my stories are basically honest," he answers. "But from...
Putting himself down is one of George's better lies. He almost makes you believe that when he and Gracie worked together, his chief job was to see which way the wind was blowing. "I had to make sure the smoke from my cigar didn't go in her direction. That's really all I had to worry about because I knew she was good...
...York City's Lower East Side, Burns started putting his act together when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn't bend my knees until it had cooled off-and walk down the street with the Ricoro...
DIED. Tony ("Two Ton") Galento, 69, brawling beer-bibing heavyweight who once knocked Joe Louis down but lost the championship fight; of a heart attack; in Livingston, NJ. Cigar in hand, Galento would greet each bout with the boast: "I'll moider da bum." In 15 years as a professional, he "moidered" his opponent 72% of the time before hanging up his gloves in 1944. In a brief fling at acting in the 1950s, Galento appeared with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront...