Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a squiggle of his pen Dr. Kung upped China's cigaret taxes by a staggering 50%. Twelve Shanghai cigaret factories instantly closed in protest, locked out 8,000 cigaret makers who shrilly cursed Dr. Kung...
...were ushered in to the first interview ever given by the Grandpa President. They found him in a blue serge suit, old brown sweater and clean white shirt perched on the desk of Commissioner of Communications Alexei Rykov. "Well, well," chuckled Grandpa Kalinin accepting and lighting a U. S. cigaret, "I have never been so close to so many American newspapermen before...
...With a cigaret holder between his smiling lips, President Roosevelt last week welcomed nearly 200 correspondents who pack-jammed his White House office to hear him announce after 16 long years U. S. recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans," trying to convince Groucho that he is a reflection in a mirror when...
...antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would be an even more satis factory revival if it did not revive also such details of the old gangster picture formula as characterization that depends solely on mannerism. Typical shot : a girl reporter (Claire Trevor) arduously rolling her own cigaret...