Word: cigarete
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...more arrogant than George V of England. Neither of them sees any reason for humility. Cohan probably has more friends than any one in the show business. His dressing room is a salon. While Hirano slides deftly about waiting for a sign that his employer needs a cigaret, actors, journalists, policemen, priests, all sorts of people arrive and depart. Mr. Cohan owns gold badges given him by both the New York and Chicago constabulary. A good Roman Catholic, he never denies a Catholic charity the right to produce his plays. Many an actor has popularity and self-assurance...
Last week newsmen went to see Charles Ward, who had just been left $1,000,000 by a man he had met in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Jovial Charles Ward gave one of his interviewers a gold cigaret lighter, told his story...
...abatement in the rise of employment." Also released last week were figures on the output of two important consumer goods: U. S. factories in August produced 236,400 automobiles and trucks-an unseasonal increase of 3,300 over July and of 146,000 or 160% over August 1932; cigaret production in August of 11,000,000,000 was 17% above July, 17% above August of last year...
Presently the Pettigrews have further cause for astonishment. Peter Standish uses words like "cockeyed," "cigaret," "tank." He sits to Sir Joshua Reynolds, praises as his masterpiece a portrait not yet completed. He bewilders the Duchess of Devonshire with epigrams from Oscar Wilde, offends her by the historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself...
Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...