Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amundsen. The Pope blessed them and so did the elements. Premier Mussolini bade them adieu. They stood in their linen overalls at the cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel...
...season's earnings were estimated at approximately $120,000 -$60,000 for 16 weeks of opera at the Metropolitan, $40,000 for concerts, $20,000 from Victor record royalties and additional "items." She directed that any damages recovered from her $25,000 suit against the Cohen Brothers, cigar manufacturers of the Bronx, for using her name on a cigar band, be given to charity...
...Great cigar makers are the General Cigar Co. (Fred Hirschhorn, President)?White Owl, Robert Burns, William Penn...
...post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
...call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling cigar** the name of Maria Jeritza, prima donna...