Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of York is also known to smoke privately and it will be recalled that when Princess Mary was married presents from her friends included a number of cigaret cases. These were expected to be used...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...
Zeno Cosini, only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac. A cigaret-smoker almost from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home...
Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...
...more U. S. daily newspapers, and in many a U. S. magazine, advertises American Tobacco Co., selling tobacco in many forms but particularly in the form of Lucky Strike cigarets. Turbulent has been American Tobacco advertising, from its extreme use of the testimonial technique to its famed "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet"-a slogan deplored by conservative advertising men, resented by the candy & sugar industries, rebuked by the Federal Trade Commission. The current American Tobacco Co. campaign, still associating cigarets with slender figures, is built around the catch line of "avoiding that future shadow," pictures trim...