Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World and the Flesh (Paramount) is a melodrama of the Russian revolution, replete with sardonic guffaws by George Bancroft and disdainful cigaret puffings by Alan Mowbray. Bancroft is a Bolshevik sea-captain named Kylenko. Mowbray is a calm patrician. His name is Dmitri and he uses his monocle in such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe...
...like Bishop Freeman. He is an occasional golfer (with Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain to the Senate), an expert crossword puzzler, a pipe and cigaret smoker. He weighs 190 lb., is still husky but much older looking than when he became Bishop of Washington...
...size of the Democratic primary vote in a State where for years the party has been an empty shell. In the 1924 election Nominee Davis got 68,115 Wisconsin votes; last week 225,000 voters participated in the Democratic free-for-all. C. As the guest of Lucky Strike cigaret's radio hour, Governor Roosevelt last week broadcast to the nation his first political speech as a Presidential candidate. Excerpts: "The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes. . . . Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo because he forgot...
...doubtless contains more misfits of humanity than were ever gathered together in the combined shows of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey (see p. 18). A man without legs walks on his hands. A woman without hands eats with her feet. A Negro with no limbs at all lights a cigaret with his teeth. Siamese twins have courtships...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...