Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty honest about returning what they find. We're able to give back about nine out of every ten articles the boys come in here looking for. Mostly they are things that the finder has no use for, like books. We have the lowest average on things like fountain pens and automatic pencils--when someone finds a Parkers 51 under their seats they seem to just pocket it without a second thought...
...Coffee Club. Next morning the President engineered one of the little scenes that most delight him. Dropping into the five-&-dime store, in search of Mayor Roger T. Sermon, Harry Truman happily joined the "coffee club" at the soda fountain. Perched on a stool, sipping a nickel Coke, enjoying the giggling confusion of the fountain girl, Harry Truman had the time of his life...
What happened was that Gimbels would take in any fountain pen, bought at any price, give a credit of $4 on any Gimbels pen priced at $8 and up. (Manhattan citizens wondered: what was wrong with the ball-point...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Father was a soft touch. Every day Helen lined up her schoolmates at his soda fountain. Helen was rationed to two sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from...
...Right Thing he represented. Bob always said and did the right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...