Word: snuffbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gibbon was a small man, just over five feet, and so fat that when he knelt to a lady she had to summon a servant to hoist him to his feet. Rather fussily elegant in his dress-flowered velvet suit, lots of ruffles, snuffbox to flutter over-Gibbon exuded a tepid blandness. Joshua Reynolds painted a deadly portrait of him. His profile is distinctly not that of a Roman emperor. He has the eyes of a maiden aunt, a tiny Cupid's mouth, and a second chin far more impressive than the first. Even his hands manage to look...
...more than proud to display them. (What housewife dares entrust to a maid, or even herself, the washing of a Ming plate or a Meissen cup?) Some private collectors are charmed by the nostalgia that exudes from an emblazoned baronial crest, enchanted by the social history implicit in a snuffbox and fascinated by the expertise needed to decipher the silversmith's hallmarks...
Bound for Mexico last December with family and friends, Leary was stopped and searched by U.S. Customs agents. Leary was clean, but when a woman agent stripped and searched 18-year-old Susan Leary, she found a silver snuffbox containing three ounces, "more or less," of marijuana. Leary said the stuff was his. Last week, in federal court, Daughter Susan was convicted of failing to pay taxes on the marijuana and ordered to a federal reformatory for a term to be determined after psychiatric tests. The doctor was found guilty of transporting marijuana as well as failing to pay taxes...