Word: cigaretted
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Zeno Cosini, only child of a rich Trieste merchant, very early in his boyhood be came so preoccupied with introspection that he was soon a hypochondriac. A cigaret-smoker almost from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home...
Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...
...Hunters the victory was epochal. It meant, they hoped, $200,000 in bonuses from fuel, radio, cigaret and food companies. Failure would have meant a return to the coal mines of Sparta, to make up the $11,000 staked in the attempt...
...stocks held $18,368,260. Its own dividends on its own $3 preferred will come to $7,438,101, leaving a balance of $10,930,159, approximately 2% of value of investments. " Odd point in United Corp.'s report is the decline of its cash holdings to the cigaret-money figure of $129,414. The company opened the year with cash on hand totalling $18,390,230; but spent between April 15 and May 12, some $14,000,000 in the purchase of stock in Consolidated Gas, in which it now owns some 200,000 shares. United Corp...
...more U. S. daily newspapers, and in many a U. S. magazine, advertises American Tobacco Co., selling tobacco in many forms but particularly in the form of Lucky Strike cigarets. Turbulent has been American Tobacco advertising, from its extreme use of the testimonial technique to its famed "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet"-a slogan deplored by conservative advertising men, resented by the candy & sugar industries, rebuked by the Federal Trade Commission. The current American Tobacco Co. campaign, still associating cigarets with slender figures, is built around the catch line of "avoiding that future shadow," pictures trim...