Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helmars, Deities, Moguls, Between the Acts; Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. (R. M. Ellis, President)?Philip Morris, Marlboro, English Oval. This last concern is affiliated with the American Tobacco Products Co. (T. B. Yuille, President), which controls the Surburg Co. (Zig-Zags), Stephano Bros. (Rameses), and the United Cigar...
When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...
There it was signed by the President while the leaders who ushered the bill through Congress stood genially by, and Senator Simmons of North Carolina, who delayed the proceedings 20 minutes by coming late, rushed around cigar in hand, at one time almost burning the back of the President's neck, at another the hand of Senator Smoot...
General Grant. The General's notorious fondness for tobacco and whisky was emphasized. He smoked a cigar having an odor like that of burning cotton. He wilted, however, before Lee, who entered and surrendered with the air of a conqueror...
...opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...