Word: cigarets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret of Polish tobacco after the concert: "This is one of the most important violin works of the century. Emphatically so!" Echoed Violinist Heifetz: "I'm very crazy about...
...more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
...police headquarters, she sat down, lighted a cigaret, told her story: Last spring she had tried to end a romance with Coffman, who was 39, a well-known attorney, married and the father of three children. When she spurned him, refused to elope with him to California, he stabbed her with an ice pick, choked her, threw her in a mudhole beside a gravel pit and left her there for dead...
...confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart to leave fingerprints and tell-tale cigaret butts around . . . too tough to be bulldozed and too smart to be tricked." How, then, could the mystery be solved? Last week Mr. Lippman found his answer: analysis...
...island's small oil docks and ammunition dumps were clapped under guard. Veterans of World War I were given guard detail until one fell asleep at his post (oil dock) while smoking a cigaret, which dropped and caused a big grass fire. Veterans also showed a regrettable tendency to detour their sentry beats to nearby bars: the orderly officer, making his rounds one evening, found the ammunition dump completely deserted and reproachfully wrote his name all over the walls before the sentries reappeared...