Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lanky, agreeable, fond of talking about himself, Reporter Rogers was well paid, drew many a big bonus for big stories. Once an unknown benefactor deposited $1,000 in the Rogers checking account. At Christmas his mailbox so overflowed with cards and gifts that once he remarked: "The whores and hoodlums always remember...
Mike was "Pasquale Cassotta" when special agents of FHA caught up with him last June at a mailbox waiting for a check. It was an anonymous letter from "A Citizen," not the banks, which gave the Federal men their first knowledge of his activities. Mike began operations a year ago, but went South for the worst of the winter, resuming his bank calls in the spring...
...human and to me a recent error is most embarrassing. On p. 24 in TIME, Jan. 21 I quote from the article captioned, "Beautiful Boxes"-"Before the contest Mr. Britt's mailbox was propped on a fence rail between tin signs advertising Coca-Cola and a tonic known as DR. PEPPER ('Good for Life...
...small card in a mailbox in Converse Chemical Laboratory reads, "Please send Professor Conant's mail to University Hall." This should quell the anxiety of those who fear President Conant is letting the University go to pot while he sits in his laboratory in mystic contemplation of test-tubes...
...shoulder. "May I?" asked a blank-faced Dinner Jacket: Three more years, he thought as he crossed the polished floor to the liner's bar, he would be of age, and no more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess...