Search Details

Word: cigaret (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts from sentries, douse that cigaret, turn off those lights, shrill police whistles, automobile backfires, the babble of Filipino and American voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Great Change | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...work from now on for one thing and one thing only-the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand." The ornate, red-carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Chai-yo for Thailand | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Three cigaret companies (American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds), convicted seven weeks ago of monopoly and conspiracy in restraint of trade (TIME, Nov. 3), were sentenced last week by a Federal judge in Lexington, Ky. Nobody will go to jail. But the judge's decision put a large segment of U.S. business on notice: competitors who do not use price as a weapon may be "conspiring" to fix prices even if they never actually meet to do so. To a great many lawyers, this is something new under the Sherman Act. One defense counsel called it the "Thurman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Thurman Act Decision | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Though he would seldom walk a mile for a cigaret, T. Harper Goodspeed is so addicted to nicotine that he traveled 12,000 miles to risk his neck traipsing about the Andes to gather tobacco plants. As heroic as his efforts were some of his finds -tobacco plants 40 feet high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nicotine Addict | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Requests made of two movie stars by 1,821 fan writers included: a cake of soap, a "piece of gum you have chewed," a cigaret butt, three hairs, a bicycle, and permission to name a pet flea after the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bagdad-on-the-Pacific | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | Next