Word: cigarete
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Presents for men were more mundane, but it was possible to buy a $150 cigaret lighter or a $25 necktie...
Thus, in 1830, wrote Charles Lamb; and thus, last week, felt most U.S. cigaret smokers. But there was little relief in sight. Across the land, men, women and even small fry continued to experiment half-heartedly with pipes. In Chicago, a chain drug store picked up a couple of hundred cartons at a Post Office auction and hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they...
...Washington, D.C., the Anti-Cigarette Alliance was ecstatic. Hailing the cigaret shortage as a "golden opportunity" which it hoped would last until 1947, the Alliance offered a "simple" prescription to those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding...
...woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand...
From Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois and Ohio came other reports last week that women, deprived of popular-brand cigarets, were taking to pipes. Across the nation, cigaret shelves were bare and gagsters were demanding "a package of 'Stoopies'-the kind you stoop down behind the counter for." Manufacturers of unknown brands were making-and, some thought, selling-hay. A group of doctors learnedly gave a U.P. reporter nine rules for getting along happily without cigarets (least helpful: give yourself a pep talk; maybe you don't want a smoke, after...