Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lieut. Colonel Pierre Lorillard, 61, tobacco heir (Old Gold), last direct descendant of fortune-founding Pierre I; of a throat infection; at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Known as Pierre III, he was actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that...
Prisoners at Camp Phillips, as at other centers, are divided into three groups, depending on the heinousness of their offenses and the prospects of their reform: 1) first-grade prisoners get basic infantry training all over again, a tobacco ration, may write two letters a week, may be visited by their families on Sundays and holidays, may read certain books and magazines; 2) second-graders are restricted to one letter a week, may keep only one book, a magazine and Bible in their quarters; 3) extreme cases are completely restricted: no tobacco, one letter a month, four trips...
...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
...Washington, Johnston's speech went largely unnoticed. But from the country came congratulatory telegrams (from a tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...
...over six months Chicago has supported a hillbilly horror which advertises that it "Makes Tobacco Road Blush." Maid in the Ozarks, written by housewifey, Ozark-born Claire Parrish, is no spoof, but a serious mountaineerful. Though the management plays it up as "Bawdy! Lusty! Unashamed!" its real stock in trade is not sex but unsavoriness -bedbugs and bedroom crockery, belches and body scratching, hogcalls and outhouses, a halfwit boy who picks his toes on the breakfast table and rubs his face with worms...