Word: wrappers
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...Christmas season by sending you my name plus five dollars. I have never before heard of a subscribee-so far as I know, therefore, I am THE Original Subscribee. I am not writing either to praise or blame TIME, but merely to ask your aid. I examine the wrapper of my copy carefully each week, and I am distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel, and somehow I can't persuade myself that it would...
...years the chick on the brownish wrapper of a cake of Bon Ami (cleanser, polisher) has not scratched. Nor has it cheeped about profits. William Hamlin Childs started his Bon Ami Co. in 1886. He is chairman...
...cigarmaker sits at a smooth bench, a mold board of many grooves close at hand. An apprentice brings up a bundle of tobacco leaves from the cool, dark storage basement. The journeyman, with quick, accurate slashes, cuts a broad leaf on the bias into strips adequate for the cigar wrapper. Then some long filler, a slide of the flattened palm, and the cigar is made. He fastens the loose wrapper end with some glue, places the cigar in a mold groove. Later comes trimming, boxing, and finally sealing with the internal revenue stamp...
...middle of Central Africa TIME is the one medium that I depend on to bring me news of the outside world. Missing a copy is a source of keen disappointment, and this prompts me to write and ask if you cannot send the copies of my subscription in stronger wrappers. A journey of 14,000 or more miles, with frequent changes from steamer to rail to native porterage, demands a much stronger wrapper than that you have been using. I have missed several copies and had others arrive in wrappers practically torn off. I should appreciate attention to this...
...measuring each 9 x 13 inches. It contained - very like its predecessors-marvelous pictures of skirts, of trousers, of miniature railroads, of horses ready to ride, of chairs ready to sit down in, of frenzied wallpaper, of tombstones, of everything. And the prices? A mere $3.17, or $22.45 including wrapper...