Word: cigaret
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...where he retired ten years ago went eccentric Harry K. Thaw, murderer of Stanford White, to contest a $10,000 damage suit brought by the Shoreham Hotel's Headwaiter Paul Jaeck. Waiter Jaeck charged that Thaw, when handed a $57 dinner check in 1935, had attacked him, ground cigaret ashes into his eye. Waiter Jaeck was awarded $2,200 damages...
...wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock's camera and away he ran with a shot of the wounded District Attorney on a stretcher, a half-smoked cigaret in hand...
...Times art editor proceeded to set a trap for the Examiner by carefully painting out Fitts's cigaret before printing it. Sure enough, in its final edition, the Examiner appeared with a similar picture, not credited to any photographer or paper, but simply billed as a view of the victim "taken before he was operated upon." The Examiner's, picture of Fitts was exactly like the Times's in every detail, even to the telltale vanished cigaret. A check on the fact that Fitts actually was holding a cigaret as he went to the operating room came...
...steel desk in a Pittsburgh office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...
...night, He promised that if they would not break anything they could have light all night, and he would see that they got bedding so no one would catch cold. He also told them that the company's fire insurance forbade smoking, but if any one wanted a cigaret he could come to the office. Several accepted. Then he produced three decks of cards and they played poker together all night. In the morning they agreed to settle the strike by arbitration...