Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric...
...Hayden admits that like most mortals he ages a little every day and hopes the process will continue for a long time to come. He does not, however, chew tobacco. Nor does he own a blue pencil, he reports, nor has he ever used this or any other kind of writing instrument to revise, delete or otherwise collaborate in a Vandenberg speech...
...Shame on tobacco-chewing, blue-penciling, taradiddling Jay Hayden...
...elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret could learn a lot from these pioneer women. Snuff dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that make the nation's statesmen and soldiers...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...