Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson County judge (i.e., county commissioner) and making a name for himself for administration. "The President loved those picnics, never missed one," Bill Boyle recalled much later. The kids always hoped Judge Truman would be moved to make one of his "Lonejack orations," the belligerent, off-the-cuff speeches that still serve him best at election time...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
...house guest of Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, the often-arrested monarchist gadfly of Franco Spain. After sightseeing in Madrid and a round of motoring, swimming and riding, the Earl presented the Duchess with a small memento of the occasion: a pair of Cartier's diamond cuff links bearing the Warwick coat of arms. The little interlude ended with gallant restraint as the Earl kissed his hostess' hand, boarded a plane and made his farewell: "Thank you, Luisa Maria. This has been a wonderful excursion...
President Harry Truman, a specialist in the short, snappy, off-the-cuff answer to reporters' questions, was as brief as ever when the U.P.'s veteran Correspondent Merriman (Thank you, Mr. President) Smith first opened fire at the presidential press conference last week. Did he plan to take any steps to restore the money which the Senate (see THE CONGRESS) was busily whacking out of the $8.5 billion he wanted for the job of beefing up Europe? Of course he was going to keep working on it, the President said. He thought, however, that things looked hopeless...
...plus $1.32 tax) . . . He walks across the floor of his $8,000 house (annual property tax $240) and switches on the electricity (3½? tax on each dollar of his monthly bill) which lights the bulb (price 20?, plus 2? tax)." Hardly a thing Henry touches is not taxed: cuff links (price $3.50, plus 77? tax), toaster (price $20.50, plus $1.74 tax), refrigerator (price $300, tax $25.52), cigarette (price per pack 10?, plus 7¢ federal tax, plus 4? state tax). Even Henry's wife whom he kisses goodbye cost Henry a $2 marriage license-to say nothing...