Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the least possible delay and I should be pleased if the Senate should take such action during the present session as to enable the U. S. to ratify the treaty before the expiration of my term of office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves of the Treaty and would like to defeat it as a crowning event of his irreconcilable career. Other opponents are California's Johnson, New Hampshire's Moses, Minnesota's Shipstead. Maryland's Bruce, bumbling against the Treaty last week, called it "utter...
...Gruff soldier with heart of gold and will of iron, brilliant in strategy, steadfast in courage-nothing dandified in his uniform, nothing lily-livered in his perpetual cigar, nothing watered about his liquor-such is, and will be, the popular impression of victorious U. S. Grant, modern biographers to the contrary...
...first conspicuous victory was greeted with Union-wide exultation, and curiosity as to this unknown U. S. ("Unconditional Surrender") Grant. Journalists glossed their ignorance with fantastic tales of Grant riding casually to battle, coat un buttoned, cigar in mouth. Immediately the hero was deluged with boxes of cigars -10,000 in quick order - and though he gave hundreds away, "having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since...
Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...
...became a contractor and hired other immigrants to drive trucks for him. Three years ago, he began to buy horses. Last week, four of these-Temptation, Preston Mavis, Myrtle Fashion and Sensation-pulled the high coach around the ring. James Franceschini, wearing a checked suit, a derby, a large cigar, and a diamond knuckle, watched them win the blue ribbon. It happened to be the 108th prize which his horses have taken in the last four shows that they have entered...