Word: perfectos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drought-stricken multitude by making beer, and not just more of the current mouth wash?" Not without a twinkle, our acquaintance assured him that insofar as he could ascertain, the news was of true report. His mentor's slow "Ah-" of satisfaction was released more gently than perfecto smoke...
...capers. . . . Several of my friends placed 'sell short' orders with their brokers ten days before the great market crash. And, while uninformed investors were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote, are concealing their extravagances, keeping much of their wealth abroad, "and at the first sign of any nation-wide disturbance they would be off to foreign lands in their yachts...
...provided of course he is not elevated from the sub-Cabinet in the meantime upon Mr. Mellon's retirement. His new geniality is political. His slant on public questions is political. The angle of his cigar is political. But the cigar, and the social product behind it, are still perfecto...