Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME-Reader Winston finish the story, as she recently wrote it in a letter to me: "On July 22, I wandered into an art gallery on the left bank in Paris and was attracted to some paintings by G. Sekoto. The name meant nothing to me-and I knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner...
...taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years, as a trial lawyer, he did not lose a single case...
...tickets were on top of a pile of old bank statements. 33 MM 4, 33 MM5. Vag had waited more than two hours to get them. Something rattled when he closed the drawer again, and Vag remembered the bottle. He had bought that too. He gingerly reopened the drawer, withdrew the bottle from behind the pile of checks. The contents smelled familiar and unpleasant and Vag felt the first tentative swallow catch in his throat...
Viema has little beauty today, though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their...
Actually, Fields was just doing what came naturally. He was eternally suspicious, intensely competitive and even at the peak of his career morbidly fearful of poverty. To avoid sudden bankruptcy, he developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of them. Once Gene Fowler saw an eye-filling roll of bills, $4,000 worth, in Fields's pocket. Asked what the money was for, Fields answered in a tone that closed the discussion, "It's getaway money...