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...Britain's House of Commons stormy David Kirkwood, Scottish Laborite, found a new cause for criticism: the "V-Cigaret" issued to British soldiers fighting overseas. From the parliamentary record...
...beam. Then the chase around the screen begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This game keeps every spectator alert, lest he find a glowing cigaret down his neck...
From the Enemy. Jap prisoners of some Marines on Guadalcanal, Kahn relates, spent half the time boasting about their leaders, the other half begging for cigarets. "One Marine first sergeant hit upon the happy notion of requiring that each Jap, before getting a cigaret, recite loudly: 'Tojo is a son of a bitch...
White-haired, 63-year-old Carl Van Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming...
Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...