Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually Secretary Stimson's goat, the one attributed to him, which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...
...land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm is his museum of the pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco in all its forms. Opposed to all scientific attainment, Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite...
...Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency, he now has a private barber shop in his agency office. Every morning he seats himself in a Koch barber chair and is shaved so close that he nearly bleeds...
...smoke in the dining car was, a decade ago, to invite ejection. This immemorial prohibition the railroads enforced on the pretext that tobacco smoke, as contrasted with coal smoke, was offensive to lady diners. The roads' real reason was that after-dinner smokers would linger over their coffee, slow up service, keep other passengers waiting for seats. Such dalliance would compel the railroads to haul their diners farther than otherwise...
Advertisements. Mr. Parkes obtained few advertisements for his Gazette. They were mostly for sales of plantations, "for money or tobacco, very cheap . . . containing 200 acres of good Land, with a good bearing young Orchard, of Variety of Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he was able to insert as many as two pages of advertising, dealing with "Run Way Slaves," slaves to be sold, slaves arrested and refusing to give names of masters, doctors who were about to open a season of vaccination, lottery winners, sailings of ships. Advertising costs were indefinite: "3 shillings...