Word: cigarets
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...women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet...
Franklin Roosevelt stuffed another cigaret in his long ivory holder. The White House reporters asked: ". . . Anything you can tell us in the way of background on why it was necessary to call General Stilwell home?" The President flicked ashes from his chalk-striped suit, answered...
...success depended on the number of times you were taken out. The favor figures were the most exciting. The favors-sometimes a corsage, or a gay rosette of ribbons-were placed on a table at the end of the ballroom.... Later the tokens became more and more expensive-fans, cigaret cases, enameled watches, jeweled stickpins...
When Sensale is not playing the contrabassoon he spends much of his time whittling the cigaret-shaped reeds of his 25-lb. instrument. He is interested in few extra-contrabassoon matters. Says he: "I would like better to be a playing contrabassoonist than a retired bassoonist...
Camel-smokers walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle. Again & again weary clerks reminded shoppers, as nastily as they could, that there is a war on. Prospects for an early letup were gloomy...