Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...
...Muskegon, Mich., a letter carrier delivered a small, heavy package at the Three Lakes Tavern, August Krubaech, prop. Mr. Krubaech was arranging his cigaret counter. His daughter Jeanette and her lover, William Frank (they were to be married before the week was up), giggled and smoked on the porch. The package they knew must hold a wedding present. Proprietor Krubaech unwrapped it, while Jeanette leaned over the counter to look with William Frank at her elbow. He got the string off, undid one fold of paper, another, then-a terrific explosion broke every window in the Three Lakes Tavern, wrecked...
Usually towards the end of the year there is a recession in tobacco production. April usually marks the resumption of heavy output. But not so this year. With cigaret production as a good indicator, the January record was about 4.4% higher than that of January, 1925; February 9.8% and March 21.7% above their respective months of 1925. So far this year 20,820,393,746 cigarets have been made and taxed by the internal revenue bureaus-12% more than in the first quarter of last year...
...simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon it. An assistant noticed the smouldering fuse, screamed. Looking up, Editor Mussolini snuffed it out with his fingers, continued the writing of his editorial...