Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

He often tries to entice potential clients with free gifts, including a " smoking monkey " doll, a pen that looks like a cigar, an exotic faux-pearl necklace, a business card that " turns into a sponge when you put it in water ," and even an almost-full Orange Julius he once had handy.

Between 1888 and 1914 numerous business developed along the corridor of Main and High Streets, those included: restaurants, drug stores, barber shops, banks, watch and clock repair shops, cigar factory, funeral parlor and casket factory, among several others.

In addition to licensed taverns, inns, and hotel, the business directory included dry goods, hardware, furniture, grocery, druggists, carriagemakers, coopers, harness makers, shoemakers, foundry, cigar company, telegraph, ice cream parlor, marble works, doctors, dentists, lawyers, and other vocations.

William Paley matriculated at Western Military Academy in Alton, IL then received his college degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in expectation that he would take an increasingly active role running the family cigar business.

Paley Senior's intention had been to use his acquisition as nothing more than an advertising medium for promoting the family's cigar business, which included the La Palina brand.

Since his small pension was not sufficient to meet the living of Raiffeisen ’ s family he initially started a small cigar factory and later on a wine business.

During the day, he worked in the family cigar store, and in the evenings, he wandered looking for any sort of show business job.

The company also expanded into the United States premium cigar business by purchasing General Cigar Company Inc. ( producer of non-Cuban versions of Macanudo, Partagas and Punch ) from Edgar Cullman and El Credito Cigar Company ( producer of La Gloria Cubana and El Rico Habano ) from Ernesto Perez-Carrillo.

In 1893, Ira Clinton Van Noy formed a retail cigar and news business at No. 1076 Union Avenue, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Heinrich and his brother Bernhard took over their father's shop in 1858 and under their leadership the business, now specializing in cigar making, grew rapidly.

The business was incorporated on 28 March 1896 to " carry on in all their branches the businesses of tobacco, cigar, cigarettes and snuff manufacture ".

Following his playing retirement, in 1947 Cuccinello managed in the Florida International League for the Tampa team ( named the Smokers, after the city's large cigar business ), and a year later coached for the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association.

Hinrich Kleinwort's son, Alexander Friedrich Kleinwort established a successful trading business in Cuba, profiting from the expansion of the H. Upmann and Sons cigar business.

The cigar business made its way to the Canary Islands from Cuba, and now the Canary Islands are one of the places that are known for cigars along side Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

After Revere sold the house, it became a tenement with its ground floor remodeled for use as shops, including at various times a candy store, cigar factory, bank and vegetable and fruit business.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

As a reflection of this fame, Brewster portrait was later printed in some cigar boxes.

But the most important thing Griffith did was work out significant and expressive natural gestures in intensive rehearsal periods with his actors, before the film was shot, such as the enraged and jealous husband in The Voice of the Child ( 1911 ) walking around his office chomping on a cigar and puffing clouds of smoke out of it through clenched teeth.

According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.

Under pressure from Starr, who had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton's semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar tube into her vagina, Clinton stated, " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate.

* The Punch cigar brand was named after Mr. Punch, and features him on the label.

Alternatively table tennis was played with paddles made of cigar box lids and balls made of champagne corks.

Created for the Spanish Navy, el Peral was " roughly 71 feet long, with a 9-foot beam and a height of almost 9 feet amidships, with one horizontal and two small vertical propellers, Peral's " cigar ," as the workers called it, ... had a periscope, a chemical system to oxygenate the air for a crew of six, a speedometer, spotlights, and a launcher at the bow capable of firing three torpedoes.

None of the three was interested in assuming day-to-day management of the network, so they installed wealthy 26-year-old William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar family and in-law of the Levys, as president.

In the 19th century, cigar smoking was common, while cigarettes were still comparatively rare.

Classical pianist and composer Franz Liszt was quoted as saying " A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world ".

The next day, Edward was sitting up in bed, smoking a cigar.

One story states that the term originated at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where it was used by Ulysses S. Grant to describe the political wheelers and dealers who frequented the hotel's lobby to access Grant — who was often there to enjoy a cigar and brandy.

He lived in an upstairs closet made up as a house-within-a-house, though he was also shown to reside in a cigar box.

On 15 September 1945, during the Allied occupation of Austria, he was shot and killed by an American Army soldier following the arrest of his son-in-law for black market activities, when, despite the curfew about to go into effect in three-quarters of an hour, he stepped outside the house so as not to disturb his sleeping grandchildren by enjoying a few draws on a cigar given him that evening by his son-in-law.

Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found by police at an abandoned hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide ; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker.

He was a great writer who came to Venice and looked out the window and smoked his cigar and thought.

The deal was sealed with a 25 cent cigar.

Since Tampa was still a small town at the time ( population less than 5000 ), Ybor built hundreds of small houses around his factory to accommodate the immediate influx of mainly Cuban and Spanish cigar workers.

Although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, the first Chinese person credited as having permanently immigrated to Chinatown was Ah Ken, a Cantonese businessman, who eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row.

A cigar factory was built.

In 1869, Spanish cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor moved his Principe de Gales ( Prince of Wales ) operations from the important cigar manufacturing center of Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida to escape the turmoil of the Ten Years ' War.

Other manufacturers followed, and Key West became another important cigar manufacturing center.

The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.

Eersel still enjoys a reputation as one of the largest cigar exporters of the Netherlands and takes still an important place on the world market of cigar producers.

The beginning of industrialization in Schwetzingen in the year 1850 made the city an important seat of cigar factories and canneries.

The story is episodic, beginning with a series of pranks on fictional important international figures, an exploding cigar and a collapsing floor under a potentate's box seat in an auditorium.

The cigar box guitars and fiddles were also important in the rise of jug bands and blues.