Word: cigarets
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...Captain sat down beside him. His hand shook a little as he handed the prisoner a cigaret and lighted it. "Do you remember the kids...
...soldiers arrived in New York on seven ships from Europe; the huge Queen Elizabeth brought an entire division. In France, at shove-off camps named for U.S. cigaret brands, more thousands of men got their sailing papers, clambered aboard ships. By this week 532,258 shouting, cheering G.I.s had arrived back home in the States...
Sure, he had been scared. He had been scared in Europe. Sometimes the Krauts had cut loose at them with so much stuff you could light your cigaret off the tracers. He was scared the day the men on either side of him were killed by snipers and he had found himself out in front of the whole division. He was scared to be going to the Pacific...
Faye Emerson, cinemactress wife of Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, chatting cozily with the New Deal-hating New York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her-a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful...
...reached for another cigaret, then jabbed the pack into his pocket. I let him talk: "He just got a letter from his wife. Just came in with this mail. He came up to me and I knew (here was something wrong before he spoke. Matter of fact he didn't say much. Sometimes they talk. But he just couldn't. He just handed me the letter and said: 'This is the first I've had from my wife in six months...