Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collector. In Nottingham, England, police hunted a stranger who got into Mabel Foulkes's house, pushed her into a chair, pulled one of her teeth, fled the scene brandishing it aloft, crying, "What a beauty...
...first sign of spring here is when the ice breaks up in the inkwell at the post office. A month later the ice leaves the lakes. And a month after that the first of the summer visitors shows up and the tax collector's wife removes the town records from her Frigidaire and plugs it in for the summer...
...Park collector found two diplomats and a bobby resting on chairs. She collected the proper tuppence each from the Japs but passed the bobby by. "Coo," she muttered. "You deserve one free...
...resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department, on a Fogg picture now exhibited in a second-floor gallery. Purchased in Italy by a collector, the Crespi Madonna was severely damaged when the ship caught fire. The Fogg directors bought the damaged picture, blistered and flaked as it was. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts all the remaining paint was transferred to an aluminum panel and the missing portions restored...
...Affront." To the juicy job of Collector of Internal Revenue in Missouri he named hulking, blue-jowled Robert E. Hannegan, formerly assistant boss of as slick a political machine as St. Louis ever saw, until indignant St. Louis voters turned it out a year ago. St. Louis groaned; it had trounced the machine for giving it some of the worst circuit judges in history, for conniving in the State Democratic organization's attempt to steal the Governorship (TIME, March 23); it wanted no more of Hannegan & Co. Snapped the Post-Dispatch: "The President's action is an affront...