Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
Accordions are popularly associated with tobacco-chewing rustics and pomaded Italian vaudevillians. Yet Manhattan music dealers reported last week that the piano-accordion, retailing at a minimum of $250, is now their best-selling instrument, exceeding even the saxophone family. Buyers, they said, include all classes from socialites to day-laborers. Principal reason advanced to account for the accordion's increasing popularity: it reproduces excellently over the radio. Added reason: it requires no accompanying instrument...
Continuously strong in recent stock market sessions have been the shares of tobacco companies. Tobacco news of last week included...
Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...
...much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond he did a clog dance in a home talent show directed by Chicago professionals. They offered him a job coaching similar productions; he accepted...