Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said it "comes in handy." By last week he was less happy about it. Pepsi-Cola apparently did not agree with the artists' jury which had given top honors to Burlin's Soda Jerker. Burlin's heavily satirical picture, which was as cluttered as a cosmetics counter and as messy-looking as a spilled sundae, had been omitted from Pepsi-Cola's New Year calendar, which contained reproductions of twelve other prizewinners. Pepsi-Cola has a stake in the dignity of the American drugstore. Snapped Burlin, after getting off 300 hot words to the management...
Drunk as he was, the sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...
...dropped from under his coat to the floor. A clerk snatched it up while another clerk began frantically clearing the counter...
...certainly getting around for her 78 years. Seven times in a few weeks her familiar figure swept statuesquely into London theaters and cinemas. Last week she had been back to see that old musical standby, Merrie England, as well as a new musical comedy, Under the Counter...
Both U.S. and Chinese counter-intelligence were aware of the fifth column. Said Lieut. General Tang En-po, National Government commander in the Shanghai area...