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...courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...intercollegiate tennis singles matches at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa., last week, were not up to snuff, but the championship went to the Southwest for the first time in the 42 years' history of the tournament.* Wilmer Allison, 22, of the University of Texas, ran Ben Gorchakoff of Occidental College (Los Angeles) off the court in 39 minutes in the finals. Score...
...flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most of the exhibited items were from the Vignali collection, purchased in Europe three years ago by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia...
...tobacco business was enormous and profitable. Twelve firms-R. J. Reynolds, American Tobacco, Liggett & Myers, P. Lorillard, American Cigar, General Cigar, Consolidated Cigar, U. S. Tobacco (snuff), G. W. Helme (snuff), American Snuff, United Cigar Stores (retailers) and Schulte Retail stores-aggregated net incomes of $96,154,158. This was an increase of nearly 14% over total profits of 1924, of about 28% over 1923 and about 29% over...
Nearly 80 billion (80,000,000,000) cigarets were sold (71 billion in 1924) ; 6½ billion cigars (slightly less than in 1924) ; 37¾ million pounds of snuff (3% less than in 1924) ; smoking tobacco 372,431,572 pounds...