Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stew. In Litchfield, Minn., the county treasurer pondered the note pinned to an irate citizen's tax return: "The cannibals had a way of solving high taxes . . . they ate the tax collector...
...Saturday afternoon in the spring time, for his music never sounded better. When the Band played "that song about the monkey," the little boy in the second row squirmed off his mother's lap, picked up an abandoned umbrella and started to march. "I won't be a garbage collector after all," he said. An old man took off his black hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief; his newspaper fell off the chair but he didn't notice...
...collector, Boston Copper Tycoon Quincy Adams Shaw (named for his father's friend, John Quincy Adams) knew what he liked. On a trip to Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...Darling Daughter. In Newark, Internal Revenue Collector John E. Manning denied a tax deduction to a young woman after he found that for the third year running she had reported losing $5 bathing suits while swimming in the ocean...
...Love Me Tonight" and "One Hour With You" are two collector's items that provide a delightful evening of entertainment. Vive la bagatelle...