Word: cigarete
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Alone at the stern of his yacht Sabalo steaming from New York Harbor toward Chesapeake Bay one evening last week, sat Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Suns,? puffing an after-dinner cigaret. He was perched upon the after-railing?his favorite stance, against which others were forever cautioning...
...down to the routine of securing their newly regained title by a safe margin. By note and radio they berated their promotion manager William Pickens for the lack of cash reward in sight. On learning that Pickens had rejected a $1,000 offer for endorsement of a brand of cigaret which neither flyer smokes, Pilot Jackson demanded. "Have you guys gone crazy? Get the dough and never mind whether we smoke them...
...Weehawken, N. J., John Moyer, Negro, went into a workmen's outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer...
...Duchess of York is also known to smoke privately and it will be recalled that when Princess Mary was married presents from her friends included a number of cigaret cases. These were expected to be used...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...