Word: billfold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impoverished count, who serves as the specious attraction for the foolish young woman who misses the sublety of her husband's quiet charm. This one can't even elope with the wife on the husband's money, because he doesn't know how to open his new billfold. He is ably played by Guido Nadzo, and the foolish young thing by Lillian Emerson. But whenever Mr. Young is off the stage, the audience is manifestly waiting for him to come back...
...were giving an automobile for a prize, we would give a garage for promptness. Since we are giving tickets, we will give a pigshide billfold in which the winner can keep his tickets, for promptness...
...brown leather pigskin billfold, inside finished in red and marked inside "Made in England...
...American Mercury will remember the story related a few years ago in Americana, a bald quotation from a small Southern newspaper, to the effect that the constabulary had barely prevented the lynching of a negro who ventured to object when a white man held him up and took his billfold. Mr. Mencken, even as Beaumarchais before him, found this ludicrous, but, like Beaumarchais, he did not neglect to point the implicit moral, i.e., that justice was a rare bird for the declassed minority...
...taking pictures through an inverted microscope onto a film coated with the Goldberg emulsion it is claimed that 100 novels could be printed on one postcard and a man could carry his library in his billfold. A spy could carry a photograph of a campaign map on a piece of paper no bigger than a beauty spot...