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Word: snuffbox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sadler in the Saddle | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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