Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra for serving as a pinch hitter, but I never collected that. . . . I left a little ahead of the three months I was scheduled to handle the team, so I figured things were even." Advice to Mexico-jumping ballplayers: "Get all the money deposited in a bank on this side of the border. . . . They have funny standards down there...
...project to be occupied Monday. Other temporary housing is being erected as follows: units for 72 families adjacent to the Harvard Business School near the athletic field; six families at Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street; 36 families in Andover Court; six families on Francis Avenue; and 18 families on Bank Street near Western Avenue...
...Last year Banker Giannini decided that his personal fortune was too big. He hurriedly put $500,000 of it into a fund for bank training and medical research. His explanation: "Hell, why should a man pile up a lot of goddamned money for somebody else to spend after he's gone?" His estimate of his wealth today: between...
...Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...office boy, clerk, and, at 20, shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates, Dickens struggled frenziedly to climb out of poverty. His inspiration was his love for Maria Beadnell, a City bank manager's cold, flirtatious daughter, who aroused "whatever of fancy, romance, passion, aspiration and determination belong to me." When, after some two years' courtship, he realized that Maria was making a fool of him, Dickens buried her away as deeply as his childhood miseries...