Word: cigaret
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...Gelatine, Best Foods (Nucoa Oleomargarine), Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Juice. Chevrolet and Buick are the only motor cars bidding for doctors' business. By advertisements, demonstrations at medical meetings and by packages sent to doctors' offices, Philip Morris has almost succeeded in identifying its brand as the doctors' cigaret. Chesterfield is the only other cigaret that has belatedly rushed into this influential field of smokers...
...ratifying a "family settlement," a Baltimore court finally ended the lengthy squabble over the $28,000,000 Camel cigaret estate of Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was shot to death during a party at his Winston-Salem, N. C. home in 1932 (TIME, July 18, 1932 et seq.). To his wife of seven months, famed Torchsinger Libby Holman, whose indictment for his murder was not-prossed, the court gave $750,000. To their posthumous child, Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage...
Reluctant to refuse when it was offered to him by President Roosevelt at the White House, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles Ben Ross smoked his first cigaret in 20 years...
Lead is the most common chemical poison causing abortion. Dr. Taussig found that chronic alcoholism may cause abortions, but "it is improbable that cigaret smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses...
...more & more determined to dance, had to be reminded time & again that her mother was a Standish, ninth direct descendant of Pilgrim Miles. When she was 10, the family moved to California, where she saw Ruth St. Denis, then absorbed by the fluent Oriental postures inspired by a cigaret advertisement which she had seen posted in a drugstore window...