Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dimo their souls, Let them make tobacco," his plan was curdy snubbed in London...
...Roll Along." However there was probably nothing more important to substitute in place of one of these four, except possibly the hilarious saga of a bersek British explorer in "Petticoat Fever," or the libretto of the excellent musical "Anything Goes." Of course it was a mistake to leave out "Tobacco Road," the morbid view of the Southern backwoods, a native melodrama which is nearing the end of its second year on Broadway. But the most important event of the year was the trend toward a native American drama...
...meeting of the council lately at which a member told us he hadn't carfare to get to the session and had walked 100 blocks [5 mi.] to attend. . . ." Another: "I personally know about 50 internes who have given up smoking because they don't have the price of tobacco. I know one chap whose girl bought him a new suit?his first in five years?and maybe he didn't have to pocket his pride to allow...
Died. William T. Reed. 70. president of Larus & Bro. Co. (Edgeworth tobacco) and of Reed Tobacco Company; suddenly, of a heart attack, at a family dinner attended by his good friend Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; in Richmond...
...Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast as any boy in his teens ever did.) His pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards...