Word: snuffbox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period. . . . This case is a parable...
...Light of Asia. Ten thousand natives and not a few elephants figure in this life of Gotama Buddha filmed in India by the Emelka Co. of Munich. The acting and photography are uneasy but as curious as an old snuffbox...