Talk story about the Maxwell Smokeless Cigarette-Relaxer, a simulated cigarette put out by the Maxwell Cigarette Tube Corporation on W. 21st St. Walter Ruben, the firm's executive vice-president, invented it.
"I must have looked like a character in a Hollywood melodrama as I lit a cigarette, put it out, lit another one, paced the floor, then got back to the phone," he wrote.
The New Yorker, July 31 , 1954P. 13 Talk story about the Maxwell Smokeless Cigarette-Relaxer, a simulated cigarette put out by the Maxwell Cigarette Tube Corporation on W. 21st St. Walter Ruben, the firm's executive vice-president, invented it.
I've never been sexually abused, locked in a cupboard, put out on the street in the dark, in the rain, gone without food, had a cigarette put out on my arm.
He banged into the kitchen to effectuate that, then brought his drink back to the living room, where he lit a cigarette, put the phone in his lap, and dialled the number to Jasper's hospital room.
After the plane was well in the air, he slumped back like a man who had done his part and was now entitled to relax, unfastened his safety belt, lit a cigarette, put on horn-rimmed glasses, and settled down to reading the New York Post.
He takes a last puff on the cigarette, puts it out, lights another.
Whether you're lighting a cigarette, putting on makeup, reading the paper or fighting with your wife.
In hardboiled tradition, he picks up a cigarette, puts it in his mouth, and tries to negotiate before Walt blows his brains out, demonstrating that Walt cares less about money than he does about justice.
Puts on Derek and the Dominos' "Key to the Highway," rolls all his windows down, shuts his cell phone off and tosses it in the glove box, lights a cigarette, puts the car into gear, and then, sobbing freely, inaugurates his long ride south.
Because people addicted to cigarettes are addicted to holding the packing, taking out a cigarette, putting it to their lips, and inhaling.
