Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed...
...undersigned Christian women, protest use of those advertisements which show use of tobacco in any way by women and girls and children. These advertisements have been on display too long. No one can tell what harm has been done...
...Miss Shotwell's identity her cheery confession became more understandable. She is a pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000,000 in Reynolds Tobacco stock. She sewed in her chinchilla coat a bar of the song she had played for John Neal, Liszt's Liebestraum...
...Tobacco Heiress" began to smoke cigarets. Miss Shotwell's appearance in Vienna was a triumph. . . . Miss Shotwell's tour . . . was the event of the Riviera season. . . . The outstanding surprise of the concert world is the American debut of Margaret Shotwell. . . . Though her fortune is founded on Camel Cigarets she is being importuned to recommend Lucky Strikes. . . Beautiful . . charming . . . gowns to match the moods of her composers . . . Charming . . . buoyant. . . . She exhibits her diary as simply as a little girl exhibits a broken doll...