Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since each man has commented venomously on the manner and culture of the other, the fight will not be friendly. The literary world can settle back with a good cigar to enjoy a mental boxing bout between two men not ill matched. The Atlantic ocean is no bar to the acidity of the printed word...
...forgive you for making important front page announcements about a waiter lighting Coolidge's cigar or on just how that distinguished gentleman eats, but when you begin to tamper with news and twist meanings it's time to prick that bubble about TIME'S "plucking that needle of fact out of a haystack of news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach...
...Soon the diners, shivering and ashamed, their skinny, ponderous or hirsute legs exposed to the gaze of the facetious bandits, stood along one end of the restaurant. The robbers searched their "pants" for valuables extracted a total of $400. One of them devoted an idle moment to robbing the cigar counter...
...what did they eat? 'Supreme of Cantaloupes au Porte. . .' Then after dinner they had cigars and cigarets. But they did not heed the remark of that great Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, about a good 'five-cent cigar. These birds had to have Corona-Coronas at 70? apiece...
...trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve...