Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also, even you must have a laugh at some of the cigaret ads. 1 do. But the one on the back of the current issue disgusts me. I cannot joyfully relate the sacredness of marriage with consumption of nicotine even if it is toasted...
...page boy opened the doors of the President's office to let in the biggest jam that had attended any Roosevelt press conference. Some of the last men in had to be pushed forward by guards. The President leaned back in his desk chair, puffing at a cigaret in a yellow bone holder. "All in?" he cheerfully inquired. "Then shut the doors, and nobody leaves until the conference is over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to those close to the desk...
...more arrogant than George V of England. Neither of them sees any reason for humility. Cohan probably has more friends than any one in the show business. His dressing room is a salon. While Hirano slides deftly about waiting for a sign that his employer needs a cigaret, actors, journalists, policemen, priests, all sorts of people arrive and depart. Mr. Cohan owns gold badges given him by both the New York and Chicago constabulary. A good Roman Catholic, he never denies a Catholic charity the right to produce his plays. Many an actor has popularity and self-assurance...
Last week newsmen went to see Charles Ward, who had just been left $1,000,000 by a man he had met in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Jovial Charles Ward gave one of his interviewers a gold cigaret lighter, told his story...
...abatement in the rise of employment." Also released last week were figures on the output of two important consumer goods: U. S. factories in August produced 236,400 automobiles and trucks-an unseasonal increase of 3,300 over July and of 146,000 or 160% over August 1932; cigaret production in August of 11,000,000,000 was 17% above July, 17% above August of last year...