Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator. One leaves the theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective, simple rather than subtle. As in all his earlier books, there are paragraphs in this latest collection which could be broken up into...
...with the exception of Chesapeake & Ohio, railroads did not keep up a sustained institutional advertising program, as do the automobile and tobacco industries. In 1933 they placed 96% of their space in newspapers, mostly sporadic "point-to-point" (i. e. timetable) copy...
...held daily bedside conferences with elderly, crop-headed Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin and Governor Jean Tannery of the Bank of France. In 1926 white-chinned old Raymond Poincaré had been able to halt a similar crisis by increasing taxes, by floating a heavy loan on the Government tobacco monopoly. But in national prestige Premier Flandin was no Poincar...
...blame for their sons' habits, Dr. James Hardin Wall of White Plains, N. Y. concluded after finding that a goodly number of drunks in his charge had been pampered, spoiled, overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile omnipotence which drinking induced." Treatment: physical rest...
...books; 200 medals; 64 models of the Spirit of St. Louis, including one cut from a half-inch diamond; gold & silver loving-cups; gold & diamond-studded personal jewelry, including six stickpins, ten watches, nine rings; a pair of 18th Century silver globes worth $50,000; a package of chewing tobacco...