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...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...
Unemployment, as statesmen are fond of stating, is "worldwide." Last week the International Labor Office at Geneva published statistics, admittedly "incomplete," tending to show how many people are jobless today in 20 countries...
...some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks would not get up and fly-an act essential to good form in duckshooting...
Banker Caldwell is well liked, and Southerners have great faith that he will lead their region to big prosperity, will wrest Southern financing from New York and Chicago. He is fond of horses, hunting. Southern gentlemen were delighted when he organized Nashville's two hunts, subsidized members who were good riders and sportsmen but too poor for the luxury. His race horses have done well at Louisville and Latonia. He collects early American silver and furniture, also anything pertaining to Andrew Jackson, his hero. With Col. Luke Lee. Tennessee politician, he acquired the Knoxville Journal and Memphis Commercial Appeal (TIME...
...Landholzer. madman or genius, who has escaped from the world into an asylum. So carefully, logically, adroitly has Feuchtwanger marshaled the army of his characters that their individual stories move together like an orderly procession; you seem to see the movement of a whole people. Author Feuchtwanger is as fond of Munich, of Bavarian kindliness, humor, beauty as he is bitter towards Bavarian stupidity, cruelty, grossness, injustice. If his individual portraits had been as sharply drawn, as compelling as the giant canvas as a whole. Success would have been a masterpiece indeed...