Word: cigarets
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...nosed, wears a white linen patch over his left-eye socket. The eye was shot out by a machine gun at Chateau-Thierry. When he broadcasts he rushes into the studio at the last minute, tosses his coat aside, keeps his hat on, sits down at a table with cigaret in hand and rattles off 217 words per minute...
...announced that credit for the brave words should be given to the late Frank Kingsley Grant, Class of 1895, who broke his leg while leading a flying wedge on the first kickoff. Prostrate upon the field, Footballer Grant philosophically remarked that his training days were over, reached for a cigaret, told his teammates: "I'd die to win this game." Four years ago Acting President Brett wrote to the Alumni Monthly: "I did not break my leg, but finished the game at quarterback; did not smoke at that time and never spoke the immortal words...
...waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited to Capone, police announced Aiello's slayers were Caponemen...
...City, N. J., John Turkess, 26, wrote a goodbye note to his wife, left $49.40 for funeral expenses, stuffed the door and window cracks of his room, turned several gas jets wide open and lay down to die. As the fumes became stronger he decided to light a last cigaret. The explosion blew out the side of the house, bruised, burned but did not kill John Turkess...
Puffing upon one cigaret after another, Miss Jones directed mechanics in attaching to the Cirrus engine of a Moth biplane a muffler of her own invention. As the plane sped along the runway and over the hangars there were noises-of thrumming propeller, snapping pistons, vibrating metal-but there was no bark of exhaust...