Word: havana
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...James Russell Lowell, in his hours of ease smokes a common clay pipe, although he offers to his guests the finest Havana cigars. The practice is quite common in England and Scotland, where, however, the clay is much softer and more porous than that usually found in pipes sold in this country, - Harpers Weekly...
Bird, '86, has just returned from Havana, Cuba. There are several members of the senior class there...
...colored individual, whose position as steward on a vessel has enabled him to smuggle a few choice cigars from Havana, is again on the warpath...
...time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have in the bundle that he carries under his arm, and of which he will let you have a hundred or so as a special favor. Scarcely is this dreadful...
...been stolen from the government vaults in Havana...