Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kissing questions have sometimes caused Jemail trouble. Working the public square of a large New Jersey town, Jimmy was arrested and thrown into a psychopathic ward for asking a middle-aged woman : "Do you remember your first kiss, and how did you enjoy...
...Jersey's reputation among experts in tax avoidance as a "good State" trembled in the balance last week. New Jersey has a property tax but no income tax. Its tax districts do not always collect taxes on intangible property as some States (e.g., Florida, Maryland) do. Last week one Jersey township up and did it, set vibrations going in many a high-powered law office. The township: Hillsborough. The taxpayer: Doris Duke Cromwell...
...paid some $20,000 annually on her Duke farms, her buildings, her personal property. Discoverer Kirby decided that she was also taxable not only for stocks, bonds, etc. held in her name but also as a trustee for the Duke Endowment Fund, a New Jersey trust. Stopped by law from snuffing back more than two years, the taxers totted up the bill at $3.10 per hundred...
...Germany will lose the war because her people have blue eyes." * Thus spoke optimistic Optometrist Harold R. Simmerman, whose eyes are brown. The New Jersey Optometric Society, meeting in Atlantic City, goggled at him interestedly...
...exile. On his 80th birthday, last November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent himself making public appeals for money for starving Poles. Last week, ill of a cold, against his doctor's orders he made one more appearance in New Jersey. As a result he contracted pneumonia and two days later, in his Manhattan hotel, he died. At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, he will be honored by burial in Arlington National Cemetery until his remains can be transferred to a peaceful Poland...