Word: cigarete
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...their meaning-and before they go to press late Monday night there has been more than one sharp conflict and too often an exploded temper. By that time the managing editor's tie is usually around his ear, his hair is in his eyes, he is lighting one cigaret from another and vaguely wishing that he had majored in a dead language when he was in college. For there is no one among all the names at the left who is not entitled to be heard on from one to a dozen stories in the issue...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
...hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...
...cable editor fights it out with the city editor in the city room, where the phones keep ringing and the rewrite men step into the booths to take the stuff from the stringers in the corner drugstores, and the presses are booming downstairs on the early edition, and cigaret smoke hazes above the grey men with the eyeshades in the slot. And the photograph forms itself on the revolving cylinder, seen through three thousand miles of atmospherics; the makeup man dummies...
...Army Quartermaster Corps in Washington had no explanation to offer, released some statistics which only deepened the mystery: enough cigarets are being sent overseas to give every man on foreign service (more than one million this spring) a pack a day. The percentage distribution seemed to be normal: Lucky Strike 21, Camels 21, Chesterfields 18, Philip Morris 12, Old Gold 11, Raleigh 6, Twenty Grand 3½, Chelsea 3, all others 4½. Army Exchange Service, which with the quartermasters buys cigarets for overseas distribution, was surprised to hear about the cigaret-supply mystery, which had already gone 16 months...