Word: cigarete
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Newshawks asked President Roosevelt when he was going to sign the Cigaret Code. He answered that he did not know; it had been sent him five days before, had been lost in the White House offices...
...business of eating from the top of the chest. But if the wife was nervous she kept it bravely from the audience. Finally she said "If you'll excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...
...fastest selling cigaret last year was Chesterfield (Liggett & Myers) which sold 34.5 billion against 33.8 billion for Camel and 33 billion for Lucky Strike (TIME, Jan. 21). Last week Liggett & Myers reported 1934 earnings of $20,086,000, up more than $3,000,000 from 1933. Simultaneously the directors declared the usual extra dividend of $1 besides the regular quarterly dividend...
Apparently a careless biddy, in the one o'clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
...dance. They were dressed as their own dreams to do honor to Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali who paints realistic pictures of horrid fantasies and was about to sail for Europe after a Manhattan exhibition (TIME, Nov. 26). On the stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere. Some...