Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Safe Deposit. In Manhattan, L. F. Lozon got stuck in an office phone booth, finally got out, found that everyone else in the place had been held up and robbed...
...stashed away in many safe deposit boxes all over the U.S. It was too bad that he could not get into the U.S. to get the cash right away. A number of Montrealers lent money to the Count to tide him over. Then last July, the Count suddenly vanished...
...Dunning had borrowed on collateral supplied by Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines, which flies to Montreal.) In return Dunning was to get 10% of the supposed cash. But, said the FBI: Count Navarro was really Abraham Albert Sycowski of Poland, a slick confidence man. There were no safe deposit boxes...
...seemed exorbitant to many, coming on top of a 316 charge per man for the new band coats to be distributed, even though half of this cost is refunded at the end of the season if the uniform is returned undamaged. Strongly resented also is the $3.50 fine deposit demanded from everyone, which is reduced 50 cents for every rehearsal missed...
...Rake's Progress. U.S. distributors have changed the title, on the theory that Americans might mistake the picture for a documentary on gardening (TIME, Aug. 5). U.S. censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...