Word: cigaret
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...baggy old man in a blue serge suit with white piping on his vest pottered out of the U. S. Senate chamber one day last week. With a long white holder and an unlighted cigaret in his hand, he emerged smiling like an imp. Through little knots of Capitol tourists he made his way under the rotunda to a small white door marked "To the Dome." clumped down a flight of steps and along a shining corridor, entered a three-room suite which is the only Senator's office remaining in the Capitol building itself...
...guide Nazi raiders.* They tested the Home Guard's vigilance by turning loose fake parachutists, secret agents disguised as clergymen, tourists, milkmen, postmen, women, bummers. One "businessman" was detected when he asked the way of a wary countrywoman, a "girl" by the masculine way he handled a cigaret...
...handshakers; he shook each hand that was offered and did not lose his smile. But in the school building from which as a boy he had been twice expelled, he seemed to lose his vitality and sat down almost in exhaustion on the stairs. He lit a cigaret and said: "They didn't use to let me do this in this building...
...until fully one-third of the seats were empty. When he finished, not a single Cabinet member was present. The people, when they heard of it, received the speech with more than apathy-disappointment that they had not been asked for more. Their only real objection was that the cigaret tax would be tough on the Tommies, whose meagre service allowance ($2.80 a week, of which married men must remit half to their wives) was not enough for a packet a day as it was. By last week most Britons figured that they might lose everything even if Britain...
...Duke had built up a well-nigh invulnerable trust by 1910, controlled the market for every tobacco product but cigars. Roosevelt's and Taft's trustbusters broke it into pieces, rearranged the pieces so that there were at least two companies making each important product, four important cigaret makers. Those four, American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds, and Lorillard, plus hefty Newcomer Philip Morris, are the "Big Five" today...