Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention, he sternly denied himself lunches (he struggles religiously to keep his weight at 185 lbs.-at one time he did daily roadwork to reduce). He turned down all invitations to visit bars, nightclubs or gambling joints (at 54, he has yet to touch either alcohol or tobacco...
INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
...cotton-growing South, notorious for its stripped and deserted farms, has had a real agricultural rebirth. There are still obstinate farmers who cling to land-wrecking practices (and will surely pay for it), but the face of the South has changed. If Jeeter Lester were to shamble back to Tobacco Road, he'd never know the place...
...Your review . . . reminds me of some acute remarks which were made on this engaging subject about 30 years ago. The following appeared, I believe, in 1918: . . . The human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist...
Then Bob Feller, carrying no tobacco but more dough (the American League's highest paid player, at $87,000), strode stiff-legged to the mound. At 29, Fireball Bob, like Sain, was pitching his first World Series game. Down went the first three Boston Braves in order...