Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never acquired the ballplayer's habit of chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
...flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits at the wrong table...
Commuter trains, which habitually lose money, are habitually dirty, uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...
...Casual mention of tobacco proved disastrous to Dalton last November. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he prematurely let slip a part of the top-secret budget by jovially remarking to a newsman friend: "You might pay a bit more for beer, but I'm not putting any more on tobacco." Next day he admitted his indiscretion and resigned under pressure...