Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government first laid a tax on tobacco, these old wagoners were worried for fear they would have to give up their beloved smokes because of the high prices which the tax made necessary. George Black, a cigar manufacturer at Washington, came to their rescue with a cheap 'roll-up' which he sold at four for a cent. These 'smokes' immediately became popular with the wagoners who first called them 'Conestoga Cigars' which was later corrupted into 'stogies' and 'tobies'. . . . George Black . . . started to make 'stogies' and cigars...
...rates are so high that if the Halls had no guaranteed patronage, they would certainly have to shut up shop under outside competition. An efficiency expert and a dietitian can clean up this mess, if the University will hire them and then give them plenty of elbow room to roll up their sleeves and go to work. Now that the undergraduates know exactly why the food is bad and the charge for it outrageous, the Administration cannot go on letting so much of the board rate go up in incinerator smoke...
...roll up the edges of your tongue so that the tongue forms a sort of tube? If you can, you are a subject of interest to Researcher Alfred Henry Sturtevant of California Institute of Technology,* and to genetic science. If you can't, you are still pretty interesting...
...moments later, when a single objection would have insured a roll-call, neither anti-Beelzebub Mr. Dingell nor any other House member spoke up, and the bill went through on an anonymous no-record vote...
Last week in Manhattan Charles Edward Smith, historian (Jazzmen) and friend of America's native rhythms, produced through new General Records Co. an album of barrelhouse tunes played by the greatest surviving barrel-houser-54-year-old Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton. The album's title is Jetty Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories, and both musically and otherwise Jelly has much of interest to remember...