Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slosson attributes his success to: 1) abstention from liquor and tobacco; 2) training; 3) a natural gift for the game. A grandnephew of James Fenimore Cooper, he played billiards with some of the literary figures of his youth. Last week he recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports of the earth. Henry Ward Beecher he remembered as a "just ordinary" player. Robert G. Ingersoll and Charles A. Dana were fair amateurs. Mark Twain was "a good fair amateur." Slosson also gave billiard lessons to famed soprano Adelina Patti...
...They recorded that the College building was the salient feature of the landscape and when they approached they heard a great deal of noise. Entering it and going up stairs they found a blue haze of smoke through which could be dimly seen eight or ten students "smoking tobacco" as they put it. None of them knew any Latin, French, or Dutch, and the Dutchmen knew no English, so communication was difficult. However, they did learn that the students had no professor, there being no money to support...
...chances of a great & good peace surviving Tom Connally's Senate, the patriot should recall one fact about the present Senate leadership. However backward-looking the South may be in other matters, it has depended for prosperity since colonial days on the sale of its cotton and tobacco in world markets and is traditionally outward-looking in the field of U.S. foreign relations...
...James: In regard to the constitution of the cigarets, I understand that the material to which my honorable friend refers may, in fact, be Indian tobacco...
...Tobacco is Cullman's business, investing in shows merely a hobby-but it has become high finance as well because he has gimlet theatrical eyes and no Achilles' tendon. Neither stagestruck, girl-crazy, art-mad nor long-shot-minded, he backs shows simply because he thinks they will pay off. The fun lies in the fact that they can pay off at astronomical rates...