Word: cigarete
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Before his mike, Allen always chews nervously on a wad of gum; away from the studios, he substitutes a cud of cut-plug for his Beech-Nut. He regards chewing tobacco as a safer habit than cigaret smoking. "When you smoke cigarets," he points out, "you're likely to burn yourself to death; with chewing tobacco the worst thing you can do is drown a midget...
...keep the officer talking until a tongue slip (he says "Yarvis" instead of Jarvis Hill) reveals him as a German. One lady holds him at bay with a pistol found on the dying man while the other wobbles off by bicycle to get help. The German begs a cigaret which Miss Grant sportingly, if inadvisedly, tosses him. This distraction provides his chance to knock her sprawling and he bounds out the door just as the Home Guard sprints up like a battalion of Hollywood's best cowboy heroes. Moral: always be on your guard with a parachutist...
...Louisiana Purchase; 'it would be announced within 22 minutes to the House of Representatives in Washington; from there it would be flashed to all their newspapers. Mr. Roosevelt grinned at his audience's chagrin-a story and no chance to send it. Flourishing his ivory cigaret holder, professorial, relishing the historicity of the scene, he explained...
...Town. Two years later she was hired for the screen version of Our Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself, dresses sloppily, avoids nightclubs. Frank Lloyd observed: "I haven't had an actress like Martha Scott since...
...them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a low, unladylike profession. Her first novel was the scandal of California society in 1892. She was probably the first refined U. S. female to smoke a cigaret in public: women fainted, men boiled, editors sizzled, preachers raged...