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...House Senator Black pilloried obscure Congressman Patton of Texas, smearing him for days with imputations of having accepted a bribe, although all that the Senator was able to prove was that the Representative had been seen to depart from the hotel room of a utility man carrying a cigar box which one witness did not think contained cigars...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...having migrated to Manhattan from a farm near Toronto, had taken a hand in Gold Dust Corp., been enormously successful in revamping American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year, McLellan Stores (TIME...
Chairman O'Connor's agents, joined by Chairman Black's and the Washington police, swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...
...concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed twice a week since July, would continue through September. She organized the Deep...