Word: carded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perpend," said Samuel F. B. Ferdly. He burrowed into the cushions of the couch, and emerged seconds later with fifty cents, half of a 3-by-5 card, nine Green Stamps, last week's New Yorker, and a hairpin. "I have discovered a new vicious cycle, a perfect closed circle of degeneration. About three glasses after I had become fully convinced of the nutritive powers of gin and tonic--a process that in itself took quite a little while--I suddenly found a cosmic abyss open beneath my feet. I had this very, very full glass...
...next day she had a postal card from William James saying, "Dear Miss Stein, I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel exactly that way myself." And underneath it he gave her the highest mark in his course...
Queens Wild. In Clovis, N. Mex., Mrs. Hazel Ferguson, irked at her husband for joining a late night card party, stalked into the game with pistol in hand, fired a shot into the floor, lined up the players against the wall, marched her errant husband home at gunpoint, next day was fined $25 for discharging a firearm within the city limits...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...
...CREDIT CARD BASEBALL will be served by Diners' Club. It signed Chicago White Sox to permit cardholders to charge tickets, is dickering with other major league clubs...