Word: cigarets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...settle the cigaret controversy which has aroused many doubting Thomases to rise in defense of the "saintly" Frances Elizabeth Willard in an effort to wipe clean her nicotine-stained fingers, may I offer this tobacco episode as presented by Miss Willard herself in her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years? The chapter head is "College Days," and the reference appears on pp. 116-117: ". . . I wish I had not had those months as a 'law unto myself,' though nothing worse occurred in them than I have told, except that one night Maggie and I dressed up as two pirates...
...When our French papers print the news of my reception in New York!" crowed Premier Pierre Laval, pacing up and down his private car, taking quick puffs of his U. S. cigaret, "that will strengthen the friendship between our two countries-mais...
...Jersey City Salvation Army Home John J. Daggett walked in his sleep, walked through a second story window, fell to the ground, awoke. He walked upstairs, reported the accident, lit a cigaret. An ambulance surgeon saw smoke escaping from John Daggett's neck, found his windpipe had been nearly severed. Said Smoker Daggett: "Now that you mention it, I noticed I wasn't getting much out of this cigaret...
...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...