Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed to be heirs. They traced their family lines back to various different Wilson Stricklands who had migrated to Texas from the Southeast, tried to prove that their Wilson Strickland was the right one. As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle-loading shotgun, other heirlooms...
...Fourth is now almost fully equipped by 1941 standards (chiefly lacks 105-mm. howitzers). Well up to snuff on the new wrinkles in high-speed modern warfare (which it demonstrates regularly to officer-students at Fort Benning's Infantry School) it expects to get most of its additional equipment in a hurry, in time to show its new punch in the First Army maneuvers, next November, in the Carolinas...
Smaller and nimbler than the average ballplayer, Rizzuto does everything with a pinch of snuff. He leaps for balls, slides for bases, scoots around like a catnipped rabbit. Last year he led the American Association in assists, putouts, stolen bases. As if that were not enough for a five-foot-fiver, Rizz the Whizz batted .347, an average good enough to lead the league until the season's final fortnight. For these accomplishments Scooter Rizzuto was voted the Most Valuable Player in all 43 minor leagues...
...created the rocky crags, the woods, the Ramapo mountain wilderness, the lake which the Indians had named Ptuck-sepo, 40-odd miles northwest of blatant, roistering Manhattan. But it was Pierre Lorillard (snuff & tobacco) who foreclosed a mortgage in 1814 and began to make this wilderness into a 600,000-acre property for the Lorillards. The memory of Pierre "will be preserved in the annals of New York. ... He led people by the nose for the best part of a century and made his enormous fortune by giving them that to chew which they could not swallow...
...candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...