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Word: tobacconists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Susan Steiner '50 and Wilma Levitt '50 bought theirs from a sharp dealer who doubles as a tobacconist. Miss Levitt thereafter disposed of three dozen among her friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe This --- Gals Junk Coffin Nails . . . | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...compressed rice, and the shell, of synthetic lime ... It will be delicious"). Under his remorseless hand, builders labored for half a century constructing pavilions, terraces, bridges and lakes. And still, he was never happier than when giving help to others; e.g., telling his tailor how to cut trousers, his tobacconist how to roll cigarettes, his banker about the banking system of the medieval Florentines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father Rides Again | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Newsdealer & Tobacconist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For a Good 5d. Smoke | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...them was the teak-decked, 56-ft. cutter Blitzen (once owned by Tobacconist Dick Reynolds). Shortly after her nine-man Detroit crew finished beefing over losing an hour by changing to a storm mainsail, most of them got seasick. The crews of the other three racers got sick first, and never did get their storm mains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Three Sheets in the Wind | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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