Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Oklahoma City, Clyde Merrill reported that the thief who stole his clothes had mailed him the pawn tickets...
...gave away all his ready cash-including 145 pawn tickets-and went to work for $25 a week at the Greater New York Federation of Churches. Five years later he was responsible for what is believed to be the first religious radio program broadcast...
...nature came, not from any government leader, but from the London Economist. "Britain has been living like an improvident family," it wrote, "which, failing to make both ends meet, first spends the accumulated capital of the past, then borrows from friends . . . and when their loans are exhausted, begins to pawn the furniture. . . . When a family faces bankruptcy, either it goes under to a life of perpetual makeshift and pauperism, or it restores its solvency by vigorous action-by buying less, by cutting down every kind of expense and by straining every nerve to sell more of its goods and services...
...bourgeois] money-making machine." He never had a regular job, and only once tried to get one; a railroad company turned him down as a clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore the crest of the Dukes of Argyll, from whom she was descended through her paternal grandmother). Guiltily, he wrote to Engels: "My wife cried all night and that infuriates...
Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton stressed the importance of dealing with Communism "in the open." To back up her thesis that "students are adept at bursting bubbles," she cited the pre-war case of "a very attractive young Nazi instructress so clearly a pawn in the hands of her mentors that everything she said was torn apart...