Word: perfecto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...
Last week Perfecto E. Laguio, M. A., Yale 1926, saw in the picture evidence of subtle propaganda designed to defeat the move for Philippine independence. Said he, at Manila: "It is a fake which was exposed 14 years ago. How it has been resurrected I do not know, nor do I know whether the little paper was aware that it was a fake. Somebody who hates the Philippine Islands has produced it in order to persuade Americans that Philippines are incapable of governing themselves...
Newspapers, like everything else, have their forms, their customs, their etiquette. One rule of journalistic etiquette is not to subject readers to free advertising. If President Coolidge ate canned peaches at the White House table, the brand of fruit could not be mentioned. If Judge Landis gave a perfecto to George V., the cigar's name would be lost to posterity. Hotels are one of the few classes of business permissible of casual mention...
...been placed on the market, and full-page advertisements are appearing in the newspapers. They bear a statement over Dr. Steinmetz's signature that the trucks effect a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent over gasoline and horse-drawn vehicles, and a picture of the inventor-perfecto in mouth-covering a quarter of the page...