Word: chit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Wayne's new movie, True Grit. Recognizing that club members are affluent-their average salary is more than $10,000 a year-merchants have been vying for their patronage with tempting discounts. One restaurant gives members a free bottle of wine with dinner. Another restaurant discounts the chit...
After they cast their ballots, many voters were given white chits by the precinct captains. Chit in hand, each voter then left the polling place and entered an alley. Novak did not follow for fear of his own safety, but he implied that Chicago still has the best voters that money can buy. This was the kind of performance that has come to be expected of the Evans-Novak team, which avoids pontificating and concentrates on examining the inner machinery of politics. Evans and Novak were not alone in discovering election irregularities in Chicago. The Chicago Daily News reported that...
...Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas, and chitty (the Hindi form from English chit) or susu in Trinidad. The Brazilian flair is in raising the ante to allow major purchases, and in raising the tone of the whole operation by calling the group a "consortium." I predict West Indians will be purchasing cars this way within a month after TIME arrives...
Married. Richard Kollmar, 55, onetime Broadway producer (Plain and Fancy), longtime radio chit-chat man (from 1945 to 1963, with his late wife Dorothy Kilgallen on Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick), now proprietor of Manhattan's Pastiche Gallery; and Mrs. Anne Fogarty, 48, designer of stylish medium-priced frocks; both for the second time, in a civil ceremony (the bride wore a Fogarty) in Manhattan...
Second time around, the crime is shown as it actually happens. Everything goes hilariously wrong. Caine turns out to be a stone-fingered amateur, his accomplice a witty little chit who can't keep her mouth shut, the millionaire himself an alarmingly shrewd article who instantly suspects that Caine & Co. are up to no good. Even so, he invites the crooks to his apartment for the pure pleasure of watching their faces when they see that the bust of the empress is secluded in an impenetrable electronic seraglio...