Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco...
...hard-working country boy, entered Scotland Yard, trained for three weeks before being sent out to the dives and alleys of crime-ridden Whitechapel. There was no romance, little excitement about the first murder case on which he worked: two thugs killed foolish little Emily Farmer while robbing her tobacco shop, were discovered after a systematic check of all suspicious characters in the neighborhood...
...make many excuses for their mistakes. They would rather be foreign correspondents than Y. W. C. A. workers or school teachers. Toward idiosyncrasies in others their attitude is generally tolerant. They are not offended by The New Republic, people who talk slowly, prognathous people, nervous people, gruff men. tobacco chewers, Bolshevists, dreamers, but they tend to dislike teetotalers, clergymen, cautious people. Much less neurotic than unhappy wives, they drive wholeheartedly to their own ends, seldom ask or accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties...
Left. By the late Benjamin Newton Duke, last of the Duke tobacco triumvirate (Father Washington Duke. Brother James Buchanan Duke): $7,879,850 ($66,000,000 was estimated at his death in 1929). Beneficiaries: Daughter Mary Duke Biddle, divorced wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., and 22 charitable, religious and educational institutions...
...Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote "aye" on Administration measures. Indeed the Senate had only heard that voice once before, in March year ago, when it delivered a short homily in favor of Franklin...