Word: cigarete
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...bigwigs who have misled her she shouts: "You tell your boss Hedda Hopper says he's the biggest son, of a - in town." Her working methods are impulsive. Confronting her note-sprawled desk, she kicks off her shoes, screams "Front and centre" at her secretary, lights a cigaret, paces up and down the room in her stocking feet, dictating at the top of her voice. Her notes are usually unintelligible to anyone but herself. Recent sample: "Willie going to war. Catalina and sleep. Stinkey Pinky. Fred. Claudette. He has to have three steps to get on the love. Betcha...
...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
...Sunday all over England they came hedgehopping and machine-gunned the people as they strolled. The attackers also resorted to booby traps-little metal boxes the size of cigaret tins with dangling wires which the curious were tempted to pull. If they did, they blew themselves...
Typical cases last week: Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military...
...great, carpeted Grand Ball Room of Manhattan's high-ceilinged Commodore Hotel was hazy with cigaret smoke, thunderous with cheers and the intermittent beat of a metronomic chorus: "We Want Willkie! We Want Willkie!" Before a crowd of 5,000, men with black chalk scaled stepladders, wrote first returns on a broad white board...