Word: cigarets
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Would not the ignorant insolence of this reporter, removing neither hat nor cigaret when interviewing these stricken parents, bar its reproduction in any publication except the world's greatest newspaper from which it was clipped...
...picture, clipped by Reader Wetzel from the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), was taken by Detroit's Daily Mirror (gumchewers' sheet-let owned by the Tribune's publishers). It showed a round-shouldered, straw-hatted young man with a cigaret hanging from his mouth smirking at Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Gold, interviewing them about their young daughter Vivian and their nephew Harry Lore who had just been murdered and burned with another young couple by three fiends (one a big Negro) in Ypsilanti, Mich. (TIME...
...birthday fell last fortnight) "P. W." is big, erect, a typical Yankee shipbuilder only using duralumin for oak, Maybachs for mainsails, the sky for the sea. He does not drink; close associates can recall perhaps a dozen times when they have seen him smoke a cigaret in recent years. He drives one of several automobiles to and from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise...
...Potsdam, Germany, a man was arrested for greeting the Republican flag with catcalls and groans. His defense: that when he had cried "Hoch!" he had swallowed his cigaret, that the supposed catcalls were "reflex regurgitation." His sentence: three weeks in jail...
...Royal Commission reported cigaret factories in which Indian children aged from six to ten are employed 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at a wage of 4¢ a day, adding, "similar conditions were found to prevail in the mining and wool industries." Adult Indian workers, the Royal Commission ascertained, receive some 37¢ a day unless highly skilled, when they may earn 50 cents...