Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George E. Thomas of Chicago refuted the story, circulated by women students at Northwestern University, that longtime President Frances Elizabeth Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the campus conspired to plant a lighted cigaret in Miss Willard's room as a joke. They drew lots; the task of placing the cigaret fell to Letter Writer Thomas' father, Philip...
Said Herndon: "Gimme a cigaret...
...According to the files, a preceptress came into Miss Willard's room and saw smoke curling up from a bureau drawer. Pulling open the drawer, she was horrified to find a half-burned cigaret. Miss Willard was apparently just like any other girl...
...London. The soldier follows her. learns all about her from her landlady and, still eager to marry her, finds her again on Waterloo Bridge. They say good-bye in another convenient tur moil of Zeppelins and searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving...
That price may have a big bearing on cigarets during Depression was illustrated last week by the case of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd. For a long time this company has had the sales rights and, through an affiliated holding company, controlled the production of several prominent cigarets (Marlboro, English Ovals, Dunhill, Players) and pipe tobaccos (Revelation, Barking Dog). For about two years it has turned out a Paul Jones cigaret selling at 10? for a standard package of 20. By not advertising it, the company has saved nearly 5? a package on Paul Jones, kept quality up. Last week more...