Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nickname, coined to his initials. Idolized by employes, he once issued an order to the entire payroll of 100,000 saying that any one who wanted to see him had only to make himself known at his office. Known as a "cinder railroader" he nevertheless does not chew, smoke or swear. "You can run a railroad without cussing," said...
...best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride...
There is practically no drinking among women but they smoke profusely. Although surprisingly good Russian cigarettes can be purchased with foreign money, the Russians themselves cannot get good tobacco with their rubles and are delighted to obtain American cigarettes. Their unusual fondness for Camels makes it seem at first that here is a people whose choice among the brands of American cigarettes is based on something more substantial than advertising slogans and endorsements from Hollywood. French discovered, however, that it is really the picture of the camel, not any inherent superiority, which fascinates them...
...President of the Council of Ministers," he replied, raising an ebon eyebrow and flicking the ash from his latest U. S. cigaret, "as President of the Council it is necessary for me to smoke the Régie. I smoke...
...Keeping the air blue with a fresh U. S. cigaret every ten minutes, Premier Laval was asked,. "In France do you smoke the Régie?" (Government monopoly cigarets...