Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter tore the capital of Muscovy from Moscow and planted it at St. Petersburg which he had created on a marsh. Peter gave his people the Cyrillic alphabet which seven-tenths of them have not yet mastered. He introduced tobacco and knouted any courtier who did not take to a pipe. Finding the women of Russia cooped Asiatically in harems, Peter dragged them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built...
Inoperative for three months was the United Stores Corp., formed as a holding company last June to assume control of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp. (TIME, June 17). Although George K. Morrow and Frederick K. Morrow, heads of the Gold Dust Corp., were then announced as dominant figures in the new holding concern, George J. Whelan, oldtime United Cigar Store tycoon, continued to manage the affairs of the two tobacco companies...
...picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota...
Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...
Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...