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Word: cigaretes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food and drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Peace | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...being to endure whether he be Jew or Gentile. I decided, however, not to assassinate Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels because it would cause too great suffering among the Jews in Germany." David then willingly admitted that he had once scribbled on the back of a cigaret package the following note in Slavic "to serve him as a reminder": ''I am going out to do one or two shootings. The time for judgment has arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Saint v. Jew | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Dorsey considers a "real addict" a person who smokes 20 to 50 cigarets a day. Such a person, wishing to cut out smoking, may try nerve sedatives, hard candy, astringent lozenges, gumchewing, but still his task is hard. "After a man has lit a cigar, cigaret or pipe after every meal for many years he will at first be at a loss what to do with his hands at such times. Likewise the confirmed cigaret smoker wants a cigaret between fingers or lips when under any tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Godinos' apartment building. When the cold proved to be pneumonia, Dr. Fabricant sent sick Lucio and healthy Simplicio to York Hospital, a small private institution. The Press discovered the case, piled into the hospital, photographed the strange sickbed, the grieving wives, reported that Simplicio was ravenous for a cigaret, irked that Lucio's illness prohibited him from having it. Then the story ceased to be funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Siamese Severed | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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