Word: cigaret
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shipbuilders' generosity rose and fell with the tide. One yard gave Cinemactress Greer Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...
Caricatures of the Past. Most formal sessions were held in the Athénée (birthplace of the Red Cross). Corridor conferences were held in a Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...
...written authorization. A G.I. can still take his Japanese date walking (in non-military zones), to his unit club (on special occasions) or to approved Japanese dance halls. Any public display of affection may subject a G.I. to arrest. He is forbidden to offer a Japanese girl a U.S. cigaret, chewing gum or chocolate...
Last week's victims of his satire: the "Men of Distinction" liquor ads, tedious radio news features, tobacco auctioneers and cigaret advertising (". . . Try the taste test. Simply take a package of Morgan cigarets, remove the paper from each cigaret [and] pour the tobacco into a bowl. Now, taste...
This rose-colored view of a divided Christendom comes from an ex-British, China-born Methodist minister who teaches economics, preaches sermons, and performs marriages at California's Mills College. From behind his usual king-sized cigaret, short, russet-haired Dr. George Hedley last week explained his double job: "You see, the Dean of Chapel at Mills is a layman, so he couldn't perform marriages. I am an ordained minister. . . . When I first came ... in 1940 the Dean of Chapel and I made an arrangement. He taught one of my courses and I gave half the sermons...