Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, arched glass showcases and shelves provided hominy grits, black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
Meanwhile the University Maintenance Crews prepared 500 gallons of what was described as "corn" to keep the staff and the vice-President of the Corporation "up to snuff." Snuff, it was observed, can only be purchased of a certain Magyar Refugee '06, in Passamaquoddy, Maine...
...have had only two team practices behind it since exam period began. Coach Lloyd Harper doesn't expect any noticeable depreciation in the quality of his boys play, however, because he held informal practice sessions during the two and a half week layoff to keep them reasonably up to snuff...
...British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...
...almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...