Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the Secretary of State for India is an arbiter of old port, new cravats and suave cigars, there is a snatch of recitative pretended to have issued from his lips in a fume of dilatory tobacco smoke...
...benefit to the entire country, for in the past too much land has been used in growing cotton. Next year, according to plans, there will be an increase of 15 per cent in the sweet potato crop, and a production of 6 per cent decrease in the tobacco crop. However, the fine wrapper tobacco grown in the Connecticut Valley will be produced in as great quantity as ever...
Favors, probably in the form of ash trays, will be given out with cigarettes and pipe tobacco and while ginger ale, sandwiches and doughnuts are being served a picture of the class will be taken...
This malted irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
...American Tobacco (Lucky Strike, Herbert Tareyton, Blue Boar, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Natural, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal cigarets, Buckingham, Half & Half, Tuxedo, Bull Durham tobaccos) made net income of $22,499,648 last year...