Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found myself in the Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...
...exactly 25 years George Kenney has carried in his fob pocket a small pair of wooden dice. They are the oracle he invariably consults before embarking on momentous projects. In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six-one, a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence "Kip" Chase...
...steers he celebrates. An anti-industrialist and individualist, he once went to jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called Pancho (or even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college (Southwestern, Columbia) and to war. He spent...
...another $5.00 as a deposit against fines and incidentals. The return for this sum and six hours of practice a week was free admission to the football games, a few hockey and basketball matches, an H.A.A.-sponsored trip to Princeton by bus and second-rate boat, a watch fob at the annual banquet (for which Johnny shelled out another $2.90). Many of his classmates, top-notch musicians but scholarship men, can't afford the money in addition to the time. Only the prospect of a Chicago trip--and it was finally called off--kept a goodly number of the other...