Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should win, and the rest of the ten get ants in their pants and run out-you pay the freight-because the Wirephoto contracts do not hold the users jointly and severally liable. I merely suggest that the intelligent thing to do is protect your own cash drawer." Shaking his grey mane, he shouted: "Break away from the throne long enough to show you have some independence left...
...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might be disposed with as adjuncts of our inter-House program. Before the custom becomes too firmly entrenched in the tradition of the system, it should be rooted...
...days their bodies lay unclaimed in the City Morgue before a detective thought to trace the black lace evening gown which he found in the crone's drawer. Then Broadway knew that "Apple Annie" was dead. Her real name was Helen McCarthy. But for five years, known only as Apple Annie, she stood in a little alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady...
...Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...