Word: cigaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children, a car. One day last fortnight he drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
...cramped though that life is, it is also a busy one. Up with the six o'clock-rising mountain eagles, King Zog sips steaming hot Turkish coffee, puffs on a Turkish cigaret, begins his day's work. From then on, except for ten minutes' exercise every two hours, he is at his desk in one of the palaces until midnight. His chief diversion is listening to U. S. phonograph records, played on a U. S. phonograph...
...leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags or level winding devices. He can hold a fish even if its fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge...
...senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell only on their labels...
...Rodney Greene, middleaged, has principles. Her campaign of goodness starts when her husband attempts to pollute their nuptial night with cigaret smoke. She bullies her son Geoffrey with sarcasm and pathos, drives him to mask his independence. Thus she realizes her own ideal of good wife, good mother. She invites the other five to a dinner-party...