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...William was a newspaper editor and Charles a cigar salesman. Both have given a large part of their time and attention to politics and yet?doing business casually with their left hands, as it were, while their attention was engaged elsewhere, doing not a little expensive traveling?they (especially the elder) are today well to do, not to say wealthy...
...away form the idea that this play originated either in a Business School or a Rotary Club, for it simply reeks of high finance. There is an enormous amount of cigar-smoking, hand shaking slapping on the back and all the good natured horse-play that business men indulge in, even with their wives...
...nature taciturn, a strange virtue in a Gascon; but when he has a subject in hand to discuss, he begins willingly and almost invariably prefaces his remarks with "Let's get down to business." His aunt says of him: "I always wait until Ferdinand has chewed his third cigar before I look for him to come out of his thoughts and talk...
Some church boards have rented offices. We have a Presbyterian book shop on one of the upper floors and a Methodist book shop on the first floor. One thing we don't have in the building is a cigar store. We could have rented a corner for this purpose at $9,000, but we preferred to rent it for a candy store for $3,000 less...
...friend" are to be commended, but the real pity is that he has robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create a national legend...