Word: cigarete
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...thin man stood by the window, fingering a cigaret, inhaling smoke steadily in long, deep drags, his hot brown eyes staring across Michigan Boulevard's river of traffic, across the concrete esplanade that bridges the railroad tracks, and out to the blue peace of Lake Michigan...
...bored. Having predicted his own nomination on the sixth ballot in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie predicted Franklin Roosevelt's renomination on the first ballot in Chicago. But until "we-want-Roosevelt" chants began to liven the broadcasts, Candidate Willkie was glum. When the news came, he happily puffed a cigaret: "Boy, I think my worries are over...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...
...from an increase in the cigaret tax (6? to 6½? a package...
...Reduction of cigaret rations...