Word: quids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must perforce seem a little too genteel, too cold, too Back Bay to serve as an adequate trustee for the Old Guard tradition. They will long for the homely democracy of Mr. Cannon, so often expressed by those homely democratic symbols-Uncle Joe's black cigar and thumping quid...
...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...