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...Lady Godiva is still a fiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Britain: Lament for a Lost Currency | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much as a fiver to her instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that he had only passed through a fiver-and that the driver was an off-duty cop. John decided to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...there have been fears recently that U.S. mobsters have infiltrated some of the thriving casinos in London, most of England's 1,000 licensed gaming houses are fairly clean operations where, as one director says, "Dad and the family can have a bit of a flutter for a fiver." In short, it seems better to establish some forms of government-controlled gambling and try to stave off the racketeers than to let them proliferate underground. The issue, however, goes beyond combatting crime. Life is filled with all kinds of habits that can grow problematic or dangerous, from liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE (AND SHOULD THEY?) | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...rattles the bones triumphantly in the face of the relative who stands to writhe most at the memory. Auntie-hysterical, nymphomaniacal-finally kills herself. Great-aunt Penelope guards her virginity with a loaded gun. Uncle Willie drops in on the family at 4 a.m. to touch Grandpa for a fiver and then dashes off. Not a bit too soon, either, since he is wanted on indecent-exposure charges and is eventually caught for kidnaping a pretty little boy disguised as a pretty little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: May 26, 1967 | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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