Word: cigaret
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...being to endure whether he be Jew or Gentile. I decided, however, not to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels because it would cause too great suffering among the Jews in Germany." David then willingly admitted that he had once scribbled on the back of a cigaret package the following note in Slavic "to serve him as a reminder": ''I am going out to do one or two shootings. The time for judgment has arrived...
...Dorsey considers a "real addict" a person who smokes 20 to 50 cigarets a day. Such a person, wishing to cut out smoking, may try nerve sedatives, hard candy, astringent lozenges, gumchewing, but still his task is hard. "After a man has lit a cigar, cigaret or pipe after every meal for many years he will at first be at a loss what to do with his hands at such times. Likewise the confirmed cigaret smoker wants a cigaret between fingers or lips when under any tension...
...more like a vaudeville item. The only things missing were a set of bones and a banjo. Mr. President called everybody by his first name and it was all very jolly. When one of the boys asked a riddle, Mr. President blew a smoke ring at him from his cigaret and ditched the answer...
...largely responsible for the use of oxygen to treat weak hearts (TIME, April 6, 1931): "Accidents from fire in oxygen tents or in oxygen rooms are extremely rare. When they do occur, they are caused by some reckless action on the part of the patient, such as lighting cigarets. This man must have lit a cigaret. The theory that a spark might have flown from the motor over to the oxygen tent is untenable...
...Godinos' apartment building. When the cold proved to be pneumonia, Dr. Fabricant sent sick Lucio and healthy Simplicio to York Hospital, a small private institution. The Press discovered the case, piled into the hospital, photographed the strange sickbed, the grieving wives, reported that Simplicio was ravenous for a cigaret, irked that Lucio's illness prohibited him from having it. Then the story ceased to be funny...