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  • We ambled into an old-fashioned millinery store with hats that come in actual hatboxes: fedoras, Havanas and bowlers.

    A Dollar Here, a Dollar There. But So What? Katherine Rosman 2011

  • However, they may well be lighting up the Havanas come Friday February 25th

    Niall O'Dowd: Suddenly in Irish Election, an Historic Outcome on the Cards Niall O'Dowd 2011

  • Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • However, they may well be lighting up the Havanas come Friday February 25th

    Niall O'Dowd: Suddenly in Irish Election, an Historic Outcome on the Cards Niall O 2011

  • Please send Harry Reid a box of Havanas for me by diplomatic pouch.

    The Government Conspiracy Agency: Annual Report 2009

  • Indeed the best JFK story centres on his love of H. Upmann cigars: before he announced the embargo on Cuban imports he sent a member of his staff out to lay in stocks of his favourite Havanas - pity that he did not live long enough to enjoy them.

    Nick Foulkes: Checkpoint Charvet 2009

  • The United States feared the spy ship, which patrolled so close to shore that its sailors could see Havanas famed Morro Castle, might create a flashpoint for a larger conflict.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

  • "Havanas in Camelot,"  a posthumous collection of William Styron's essays, transports us back to an era when being a novelist meant a kind of lustrous celebrity, as Styron and his contemporaries ( "our vintage" — Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin) jockeyed to inherit the outsize mantles of Hemingway and Faulkner.

    A Writer’s Brush With Fate 2008

  • But for me, a Cuban-American, and the daughter of a man obsessed with the singular idea of reuniting the two Havanas, I thought, I better start giving a damn! But I get ahead of myself.

    Vivien Lesnik Weisman: Who the Fuck is Bombing My Dad? 2008

  • One of the contributors in my documentary, The Man of Two Havanas, journalist Ann Louise Bardach ... you may have heard of her, she's on NPR all the time ... quotes Einstein as saying: "Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

    Vivien Lesnik Weisman: Who the Fuck is Bombing My Dad? 2008

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