Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stearns of Massachusetts . . . and several hirelings. As soons as the secretary gets your name, he says: 'Have a cigar.' You meet...
Stearns; he says: 'Have a cigar.' Ultimately you reach Mr. Butler, and he says: 'Have a cigar.' They do not talk much, Mr. Stearns...
Butler favoring Mr. Coolidge in the matter of silence. 'Have a cigar' serves in place of conversation. 'I collected,' said a man who was in there the other day, 'three cigars in three minutes and they were all Corona Coronas.' The only thing new about all this is the quality of the cigars. . . . Mr. Butler is a shrewd, hard-headed man. You feel that the Corona Coronas are not an accident. Like Alexander Hamilton, he can touch the rock of political resources and abundant streams of revenue will burst forth...
Laying down his cigar Mr. Lloyd George arose. Standing with his pince-nez poised in his left hand and describing himself as a " plain Euro-pean," the ex-Premier said he was a very old journalist-once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined...
...some years great groups of the illuminati have been proclaiming Charles S. Chaplin an artist. Yet our good old uncles and funny old aunts, who really knew about custard pies, demurred. They said that when one comedian dropped a lighted cigar down another comedian's trousers it was not art. And for their part they couldn't see anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make...