Word: cigarete
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...boiled potatoes. Contrary to all romantic tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening, but Amorous "Red" Mohan is a very Tristram for constancy...
...addresses, outlining speeches, making ponderous platitudes interesting. So well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings. In each "conversation" was planted the germ-idea of a news story and each story reflected credit upon President Harding...
...Tuesday, therefore, fully 150 people crowded into the factory loft. To honor the holiday, and the educational-propagandal film from Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking cigarets, while a friend riotously cranked the projector in the doorway and ribbons of celluloid spewed from the machine and lay curled on the floor. The butt of Operator Bazarnov's cigaret fell to the ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov...
...laundry owners announced 10% increase of family business in 1928, predicted a billion dollar laundry industry in 1930. Thirty chain store systems showed February 1929 sales increasing 24% over February 1928. Cigaret output last month was half a billion greater than for last February. Copper hit a new high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production...
Died. Otto Sternoff Beyer, 70, of Brooklyn, N. Y., engineer, scion of Esthonian nobility; of hardening of the arteries; in Brooklyn. Engineer Beyer developed a vacuum method of filling milk bottles, automatic cigaret-making machinery, high speed compressors, canning machinery...