Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preechers and some of the old girls" are cutting up just like a sausage machine in some sections of the STATE-just because they haven't yet received word from LORD SIMMONS to commence eating the pie that he (SIMMONS) has been spitting tobacco juice in-for some considerable time past...
...nation's press, as everyone knows, points with pride to almost all forms of tobacco advertising, which helps to make profits to buy publishers fat cigars. The sentiment put forth in the name of Cleveland's Boy Scouts, caused a flurry of japes, jibes and ridicule in the nation's press. All Boy Scouts suffered when journalistic smartcrackers suggested ways and means for Cleveland's Boy Scouts to accost women on the street, ask them if they smoke, beg them to refrain...
During the past week many American newspapers have printed lurid tales of the strike of the tobacco workers in Greece. These stories which emanated from Vienna and Belgrade told of scores being killed and hundreds wounded in riots in various Macedonian cities; of the mutiny of a portion of the fleet; of a Communist revolution which was declared to be in progress; of fighting behind barricades in the streets of Piraeus, and of other dire happenings...
Some of the tobacco workers, for the most part employed by American concerns, have been on strike and the police have taken the same steps to preserve order that the police of any other country would have taken. There has been no serious street fighting, no long casualty list, no mutiny in the fleet and no Communist revolt...
...drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders, Marty Callaghan and Everett ("Pid") Purdy- Callaghan tobacco-chewing, closemouthed, bearing himself with a martyred manner before umpires; pert Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds...