Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually $2 to $4. She kept a running total of each one's earnings by punching neat green cards. "If a customer paid $2," she explained, "I'd punch two. If the next one paid $3, I punched five. If the next one paid $4, I punched nine." A card offered as evidence showed that one of her girls had collected $46 between...
Responsible for most physical pain and damage have been the four famed Dusek brothers, who have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...
...rules committee further more explicitly stated that there was no rule in the guide which states that the aggregate total points should decide. The rule covering the matter reads as follow: "At the end of the bout the judge shall write the name of the winner on his tabulation card. If both agree, the decision is final. If they do not agree, the referee casts the deciding vote...
Garlanded with such laurels at an age when her contemporaries become inflated with conceit about a gold star on the report card, it might seem natural for the most celebrated child alive to be in private life also the most objectionable sample of precocity, weight for age, who ever gave sharp answers to her betters. Such is not the case. Disappointing as the case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon...
Juniors and Sophomores-- Study cards for next year are due on Thursday, April 23, at 5.00 o'clock, Room C, University Hall. Failure to hand in his card (whether he expects to be in College next year or not) will render the student liable for a $5.00 fine...