Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked black & white trousers, red flannel tie and slouch hat, as a rich Westerner eager to see New York, he went at night into brothels and Chinese opium dens, consorted with gamblers, crooks and prostitutes in Manhattan's red light districts...
...portrait, express prepaid, and one of Mr. Rockefeller's ties which represents the shade of blue which he has been in the "habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size...
...when he said: "It is easy to say 'no,' and if that is the program and we want the Government to do our banking, what is to become of our high-priced bank talent? The office boy can say 'no' and the note teller can collect the notes if they are good...
...wiry little Rufus Barlow became a jockey, then a horse trainer, finally a bookmaker. One or another of his positions took him to Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, China and India before he reached France as trainer for the great Gautier racing stables at Bordeaux. His hobby was to collect costumes from each country he visited...
...collect timetables as a hobby. This morning I received from the Superintendent of the Line of the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours copies of their various timetables. Along with my letter of thanks, I am sending him a copy of this weeks TIME, with p. 29 marked. It seemed rather a coincidence that the picture of his railway line should appear the very week that the timetables were received...