Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...
...sake, Tobacco...
Poet Henley once began: "If I were king, my pipe should be premier." "Hail, social tube," sang Dr. Syntax. Moreover, there is an ode, well-deserving of immortality, by one Francis Hoyland: On An Old Maid That Chewed Tobacco...
...American Tobacco...
Earnings of the American Tobacco Co., according to its 1924 report, were the largest in its history...