Word: cigarets
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Having perused this dignified and informing head, the readers of the Times folded their papers to read the article that followed. In anticipation of the obituary, which they knew would be capably, decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...
Like a new cigaret-case, the game between Illinois and Iowa opened and closed with a snap. "Red" Grange (Ill.) picked up the opening kick-off and ran 80 yards for a touchdown in the last minute of the last half, with the score 10 to 6 against his team. "Cowboy Knick" Kutsch (Iowa) ran 32 yards to the Illinois one-yard line; crossed it on the next play as the whistle blew. Score: Iowa 12; Illinois...
...opera. For half that sum, or a quarter of it, one can share in a holiday that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities upon the stairs; Anne Roselle was an amply emotional heroine...
...gliding across the floor, to the sensuous strains of oriental music, varied, from time to time, by the clanging discords of a jazz band, their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were positively indecent. And all of this in an atmosphere that was strongly tainted by cigaret smoke and the fumes of whisky, which was being sold in cold-blooded violation of the Constitution of the United States...
...reels, the Portland Fancy, Money Musk, the Fisher's Hornpipe, Pop Goes the Weasel, waltzes, polkas, the ripple, quadrilles, barn dances. Mr. Ford does not like modern dances, thinks the old ones will come back, is preparing a book to show why. He has also written a pamphlet against cigaret smoking and a discourse on why English should be a universal language. He collects American antiques. He has built a golf course for his employes and plays on it. He has opinions on politics; opinions and a hand in business. Age (62) cannot wither his infinite variety. He is always...