Word: cigarete
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...again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon it. An assistant noticed the smouldering fuse, screamed. Looking up, Editor Mussolini snuffed it out with his fingers, continued the writing of his editorial...
...coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard Law School) and to the words of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, a wild Irishwoman who could fire a meeting like a cigaret in shavings. They had been listening to her that afternoon. She had sent them out to march past the mill...
Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...Petersburg and Vienna diplomatic life, marrying him in 1904.** She has long adorned and stimulated the chic milieu of which she writes. Photographs released to the public prints reveal her as an attractive, dark beauty well on the mentionable side of 35, posing in silks beside sophisticated bookshelves, cigaret in hand, large black eyes bent upon the beholder from beneath a high, thoughtful brow...
...House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes focused with keeness and understanding on the members of the committee...