Word: cigarets
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...adopted. He never visited America although he undoubtedly heard a great deal about it and was one of the first to make use of one of its first exports, tobacco. When you get off the train at his home town you are immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard...
...fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane in the State institution. Or work for the Sun, that gentle old Y. M. C. A. Smoke a cigaret in the city room and you'll be sleeping on a park bench the same night. Or work for the Post, with the Great White Father of the Curtis publications spying on you from Philadelphia. Oh yes, Mr. Lorimer. Oh no, Mr. Lorimer. Or work for the Brooklyn papers, like the Eagle...
...Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...
...pondered the matter of how England would respond to the somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt to make a "Lucky...
...Millville, N. J., last week, the School Board, in star-chamber session, was told by an irate father of going to a teacher's house with his wife to talk about their son's progress in school: "There she sat in pajamas, puffing away at a cigaret. I asked her how the boy was making out in study and she took another inhale and asked me if he hadn't shown me his report. I told her I had seen it, and that was the reason I came to her. Then she calmly told me that...