Word: humidor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spending $3,100 a month on cigars. After a media outcry, Netanyahu today promised to curb his habit of puffing on $30 stogies at work and offering them to guests. (Add up the figures and it's hard not to suspect that the help had their hands in the humidor too.) Not that Bibi hadn't sacrificed enough already: During his opposition days, he smoked 'em Cuban; once elected, he had to switch to a Dominican brand to stay on the right side of the U.S. embargo...
...Amount paid for a humidor once owned by John F. Kennedy, at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction...
...then there was the suddenly famous cigar humidor given to J.F.K. in 1961 by comedian Milton Berle. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the magazine Cigar Aficionado, set his sights on it because he worked as a high school volunteer during Kennedy's 1960 campaign for the presidency and, well, because he's the publisher of Cigar Aficionado. "I didn't think about what it would cost me," he says. "I only thought that I wanted it very badly." He expected to "pay a lot," he says, "but to me a lot was under $100,000." He wound up shelling...
...thoughts on it before she died. It was brilliant to set the prices so low on everything. That way, everybody felt he or she could afford something. No one could accuse the Kennedy kids of greed, as it seemed rather generous of them to offer Dad's humidor for only a couple of thousand dollars. Then when it went for $574,500, it was like an enormous compliment to the Kennedy family: "We like you! We really like you!" And the kids could shyly say, "Thanks, we're so surprised. We never dreamed people would pay $1.5 million dollars...
...their lives certainly reinforces that impression. Part of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate is up for sale at New York's venerable Sotheby's auction house in a four-day marathon sale. Well into its second day, the sales have exceeded even the auctioneers wildest expectations: a walnut humidor, a gift to President Kennedy from the comedian Milton Berle that was expected to sell for $2,000 to $2,500 went for $574,500; $442,500 for an oak rocking chair used in the Kennedy White House; $48,875 for a Tiffany silver tape measure engraved with Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis...