Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story went on to say that the Ladancas never had enough money to buy Bruno trousers and shoes at the same time so that he could go to school, where he would at least get one good meal each day. "So he's growing up ignorant," Mrs. Ladanca said. "What's worse, he's hungry...
...Brooklyn and Back. Bill Joyce was working for a West Coast finance company when he decided to be his own boss. After a look at 100 different businesses, he picked shoes. He lined up pledges of $150,000 in venture capital to buy a small Brooklyn shoe factory, arrived in New York to close the deal just as the stock market crashed in 1929. His pledges soon evaporated...
Risking $15 of his scanty capital on an ad in a theatrical magazine, he was happily surprised to get quite a few orders from it. It seemed that housewives as well as actresses would buy his comfortable sandals. The first year he grossed...
...Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend to buy him a tombstone, he said, "I am under the impression that he leaves Beatrice well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present, for the characters...
Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...