Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently the Pettigrews have further cause for astonishment. Peter Standish uses words like "cockeyed," "cigaret," "tank." He sits to Sir Joshua Reynolds, praises as his masterpiece a portrait not yet completed. He bewilders the Duchess of Devonshire with epigrams from Oscar Wilde, offends her by the historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself...
Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...
...German plane drops a note, countersigned by Prisoner Howard, requesting Fairbanks' return. On the front-line a white flag is raised. The Germans raise another, send out two men. The Allied lines send out three, including Fairbanks. In No Man's Land the party engages in chitchat, cigaret-exchanging, and Fairbanks is handed over. At his prison camp trial he refuses to testify, is sentenced to be shot, is saved by the actual murderer's note and suicide. As an adequate finish to this melodramatic tale (adapted from Author Sir Philip Gibbs's novel, Fellow Prisoners...
...crackup since the squadron set out from Italy for the U. S. The accident was an excuse for General Balbo to decline a wearying round of ceremonies at Lisbon. However, he did find time for a bullfight in his honor, which he enjoyed so much that he gave his cigaret case to one matador, his revolver to another. In return he got a bull...
...Mexico City the staff of the U.S. embassy decided to present a departing" attache with a cocktail shaker. Ambassador Josephus Daniels heard about it, made them give a cigaret case instead...