Word: snuffs
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Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...
...sheiks and others arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
Cigarets produced during 1930 reached a new high of 119,624,909,900, an increase of 586,000,000 over 1929. Cigar production dropped 662,000,000 to 5,889,132,400. A decrease of 9,000,000 Ib. brought manufactured tobacco down to 328,765,000 Ib. Snuff produced was slightly less...
...omitted Allis-Chalmers 4,330 3,604 American Seating 484 183 American Snuff Co 2,109 1,893 American Steel Foundries... 5,121 2,801 Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper 5,326 6,7470 Caterpillar Tractor 11,600 8,714 Congress Cigar 2,882 1,652 Crucible Steel 8,162 4,045 B. F. Goodrich 7,446 8,4OoD Hudson Motor Car 11,594 324 International Safety Razor. . 505 454 Irving Air Chute (para chutes) 452 241 Jewel Tea Co 1,691 1,705 La Salle Extension University 341 167 McGraw-Hill Publishing. ... 2,231 2,021 Marion Steam Shovel...
...users of dry snuff have dwindled and only a few are left, mostly in the South. These are fond of pointing out that Benjamin Franklin was the champion U. S. snuffer. He startled European courts by the care he used in carrying the right colored box for every occasion. In Canada, the Royal Highlanders at mess pass around a ramshorn filled with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing...