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Like an extra figure in an intimate photograph, the fifth token will lie stealthily in the pocket, only to reappear invariably when something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Here to Lechmere | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

...rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped his money to the floor, then killed the rival when he stooped over to pick it up. Not so deadly a shot as "Wild Bill" Hickok or the great King Fisher, Hardin was craftier and faster on the draw than any man of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Texas Killer | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...PINCHOT FOR SENATOR. Overhead fluttered a banner with this strange device: VOTERS-DON'T LET REED TAKE YOU FOR ANOTHER SLEIGH RIDE-VOTE FOR PINCHOT. "It's awfully silly," the Governor's ebullient lady confided, "but it makes a good picture." Political tricks and stratagems far craftier than this were going on all over the Keystone State where Democrats and Republicans were winding up their hottest primary campaigns in years. Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pennsylvania Primaries | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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