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...that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wistfully, the Weed | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother of the Coast-- | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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