Word: cigars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Repeal the "nuisance" taxes: on cameras, films, firearms, shells, cigar-holders, pipes, slot machines, mah jong sets, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, yachts, playing cards. Also taxes on automobiles, motor vehicles and accessories...
...trend in smoking from cigars to cigarets has hit the American Sumatra Tobacco Co.-producers of cigar wrappers-very hard. For four years, deficits have been piling up, and now amount to about $4,500,000. As a result, inventories have had to be liquidated and dividends on its preferred stock suspended. Finally, on June 1 next, a 7½% "gold" loan matures. So hopeless was the outlook for funding this issue that the Company was placed in the hands of receivers...
...Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar records were...
...gold watch (Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...