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Word: tobaccos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have succumbed to the temptations of a luxurious Sunday morning breakfast in bed while their Wellesley contemporaries, in order to enjoy a puff of a cigarette prohibited in Wellesley and Natick, are making a daily trip to Boston and back between morning and noon classes, luxuriating in clouds of tobacco smoke and monopolizing the Boston and Albany smokers at the expense of the male passengers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEAUTY SLAYS THE BEAST | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Last week he heard that 22 of his prints had been donated to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum by five persons, among them Tobacco Tycoon David A. Schulte. More important, they have been accepted and will be hung in the black-and-white section among etchings and engravings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steiglitz into Metropolitan | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...works in the attic of five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Penney's son James Cash Penney Jr. approves tobacco, of alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cannon's Reward | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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