Word: snuffs
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...clings to the taking of snuff and to wearing his hat when seated in the House of Commons, where he has sat since 1880. The snuff is a whim, but the hat stamps him as the last survivor of those indomitable oppositionists, the Irish Nationalists, once led by the late famed Charles Stewart Parnell...
...this connection it is significant, however, that such artists as Rembrandt, Tiepolo and Whistler are represented. Moreover, there are two groups which show a specialization in collecting not unworthy of a museum. One of these is a collection of small engraved silver snuff boxes; the other consists of miniatures comprising examples painted by Copley and Benjamin West. John Paul Jones, Robert Morris, Charles Sumner and two signers of the Declaration of Independence are among the subjects of this collection...
...higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline of 4.9% in production of the classification listed as "manufactured tobacco" is attributed to the passing of the tobacco chewing habit...
...century and a half ago the ladies of France, their skirts shining like inverted sprays of silver in the light of many candles, looked over their fans at a crumbling world and at gentlemen who took snuff, with elaborate and effeminate gesture, from small, silver boxes. In the rooms where they danced or laughed or whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly...
...Berlin, Paul Meyerheim, a painter of animals, was last week seen puffing smoke at a caged bear. Said he: "I once got a lion to pose for me by blowing a load of snuff tobacco into his nose. . . . He got up, sneezed with infinite pleasure and then posed...