Word: cigarete
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When told she had won, Mrs. Van Etten jiggled the cigaret lighter on her car, burned her thumb. Planning to save part of the $10,000, she remarked, "I don't suppose it would be possible to repeat right away on a thing like this," went to work on a second novel...
Other reductions were on cigaret paper, corsets, canned mushrooms, lace, perfumes, vanilla beans, feather dusters, candied chestnuts, Roquefort cheese, jewelry. Last year $4,270 of the $4,275 worth of maraschino cherries imported by the U. S. came from France. On these Secretary Hull sliced the duty...
...number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with heroic nonchalance...
...parliamentary elections. To take his place, he sent a predecessor in France's Foreign Office, silver-thatched, quick-witted Joseph Paul-Boncour. One of the smartest trial lawyers in France, he is much more sympathetic personally to Anthony Eden than Foreign Minister Flandin is. Puffing nervously at a cigaret, talking with pale fluttery fingers, M. Paul-Boncour explained France's position in an entirely new light...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...