Word: chewer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts to the burning tears of the Geyser. The number closes with a very sensible article on "Rich Men's Sons...