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...southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black, of cheese, sardines, tobacco juice, tobacco smoke, Garrett's snuff. A man can always find company at the store, sitting and talking, drinking soda pop, maybe just sitting. In the back of the store or off to one side are Negroes, talking low, speaking to white folks only when spoken...
...Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to snuff, he joined a course at Columbia, but he had to give it up. Too much homework...
...snuff are Great Britain's methods of putting her cause in its best light to the rest of the world. While the Germans stumble around with the horse-&-buggy propaganda technique of simple name-calling (Britain's diplomacy is "perfidious"; Churchill a "warmonger"), the British have developed a streamlined method which generally appears merely to put the clear eye of psychology on their foes. The British have so far branded Mr. Hitler nothing much worse than an interesting nut, the Germans as the victims of mass delusion. Last week the German and British methods met head...
...word in Texas last week was that President Roosevelt has picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...
...prime attraction was his snuff. Jerry Sadler's desk is littered with empty Garrett Snuff cans and adorned with a tarnished silver snuffbox. Last July he told a snuff-dippers' convention: "Every old-line politician lined up against me. But I had one advantage . . . I was a snuff dipper. As a boy it was sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret...