Word: billfolds
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...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...
...Gimme your wallet damn quick." he swore feebly at Dr. Frederick James Kelly, president of the University of Idaho. Dr. Kelly handed over a billfold containing...